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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kindness \Kind"ness\, noun [From {Kind}. a.]
1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.
I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. --Shak.
Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. --Wordsworth.
2. A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.
Syn: Good will; benignity; grace; tenderness; compassion; humanity; clemency; mildness; gentleness; goodness; generosity; beneficence; favor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
kindness
noun
1: the quality of being warm-hearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic [ant: {unkindness}]
2: tendency to be kind and forgiving [syn: {forgivingness}]
3: a kind act [syn: {benignity}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "kindness": accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness, affability, agreeableness, aid, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, assistance, auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, charitableness, charity, class, clemency, cogency, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, compliance, condolence, condonation, congeniality, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, desert, dispensation, disregard, excellence, expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling, fineness, first-rateness, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness, friendliness, friendship, generosity, generousness, geniality, gentleness, good deed, good offices, good turn, goodliness, goodness, grace, graciosity, graciousness, healthiness, helpfulness, hospitality, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, kind deed, kind offices, kindliness, kindly act, labor of love, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, love, magnanimity, mercy, merit, mitigation, mitzvah, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, overlooking, pardon, pathos, patience, peaceableness, philanthropy, pity, pleasantness, profitableness, quality, quarter, relief, reprieve, rewardingness, ruth, self-pity, service, skillfulness, sociability, soundness, superiority, sympathy, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, turn, understanding, unhostility, unrevengefulness, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, warmth, well-affectedness, wholeness, worth
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
KINDNESS, noun A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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