Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or state of being kind.
- n. An instance of kind behavior: I will always remember your many kindnesses to me.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being kind; good will; benevolence; beneficence of action or manner.
- n. A kindly or tender feeling; affection; love.
- n. That which is kind; an act of good will; a benefaction: as, to do one a kindness.
- n. Accordance with mood or desire; fitness; agreeableness; congruity: as, the kindness of the elements.
- n. Synonyms Tenderness,compassion, humanity, clemency, mildness, gentleness, goodness, generosity, fellow-feeling. See benignant and kindly.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being kind.
- n. An instance of kind or charitable behaviour.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.
- n. A kind act; an act of good will.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic
- n. tendency to be kind and forgiving
- n. a kind act
Etymologies
- From kind + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Stewart wound up the bit by saying everyone should take a lesson in kindness from the Sanchez episode.”
The Washington Post: Jon Stewart: Rick Sanchez 'has a big heart' (Video)
“But papa was stern for once, and vowed that I had been served quite right, declared that I should not be removed from school, and sent old Swishtail a brace of pheasants for what he called his kindness to me.”
“Usually he prefaces his turn with a plaintive speech in which he refers to the kindness and fair play shown him by his Australian audiences.”
“I was still trying to reconcile the term kindness with the bad-tempered Raziel I’d been saddled with.”
“Mamma enjoys the birds very much, and I think I do more; for I have the double pleasure of giving them to mamma, and of eating them afterwards; but your kindness is the best of all.”
“He exasperates me every moment by his stupidity, which you call his kindness; by his dullness, which you call his confidence, and then, above all, because he is my husband, instead of you.”
“He had, of course, received the letter we had written to him from Tripataly, and quite pained me by the gratitude he showed for what he called my kindness to his daughter.”
“I should not be removed from school, and sent old Swishtail a brace of pheasants for what he called his kindness to me.”
“Since I look like your daughter Catherine, that which you call my kindness ought not to surprise you.”
“Once again kindness is not living up to her moniker; -)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kindness’.
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Guide to the Perplexed
Lexicon of terms set forth in Maimonides 'Guide to the Perplexed'. A fascinating exercise in theosophy and translation if one substitutes these definitions for a "revised" reading of the Old Testa...
eye, apprehend, associations, air, ruah : or ruhoth,..., affection, attribute, approach, accidents, ascending, articulated, back and 119 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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Hugonyms
Anything hugging related :)
squeeze, embrace, cuddle, nestle, cling, snuggle, arms, exchange, bear hug, thoughtful, affectionate, waist and 16 more...
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The Golden Rule
TABLE OF PROPOSED RULES TO LIVE BY
The Golden Rule Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The Silver Rule Do not do unto others what you would not have them do un...ethics, reciprocity, silver rule, karma, tit for tat, newton's third law, virtue, temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, humanity and 44 more...
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Words to live by
and my mantras
faith, God, Buddha, Muhammad, laughter, simplicity, hope, gratitude, Jesus, science, theology, agnosticism and 16 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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What a concept
surrender, submit, yield, self-sacrifice, relent, capitulate, compromise, accommodate, commiserate, forgive, placate, give and 94 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Poetrie: "For I Will Consider My Cat ...
An excerpt from Jubilate Agno, written by Christopher Smart between 1759 and 1763 during his confinement for "lunacy" at St. Luke's Hospital in Bethnal Green, London.
For I will...consider, cat, jeoffry, servant, living god, duly, worship, wreathing, elegant quickness, leaps up, musk, blessing and 145 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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a few of my favorite words
these are some of my favorite words...
brilliant, delicious, lovely, ever, with, present, here, light, radiant, bright, beauty, live and 209 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kindness.
brobbins life, gift of Jul 23, 2009
ofravens Kindness glides about my house.
Dame Kindness, she is so nice!
from "Kindness," Sylvia Plath Mar 26, 2008