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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Beneficence \Be*nef"i*cence\, noun [L. beneficentia, fr. beneficus: cf. F. b['e]n['e]ficence. See {Benefice}.] The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. --Cowper.
Syn: See {Benevolence}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
beneficence
noun
1: doing good; feeling beneficent [ant: {maleficence}]
2: the quality of being kind or helpful or generous [ant: {maleficence}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "beneficence": BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, agape, alms, altruism, auspiciousness, benefaction, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, benignancy, benignity, bigheartedness, brightness, brotherly love, caritas, charitableness, charity, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contribution, do-goodism, favorableness, flower power, fortunateness, generosity, giving, good auspices, good omen, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, humanitarianism, largeheartedness, love, love of mankind, luckiness, offering, philanthropism, philanthropy, propitiousness, prosperousness, utilitarianism, welfarism, well-disposedness
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