Kindness

Antonyms for kindness:

unkindness, malignity, cruelty, meanness, ill will, harshness, barbarousness.

Synonyms for kindness:

Sense 1

delicacy, femininity, goodwill, good turn, charitableness, courtesy, largesse, solicitude, tlc.

Sense 2

roughness, diplomacy, indulgence, attention, consideration, amenity, friendship, discretion, oblation, favor, benefaction.

Sense 3

christianity.

Sense 4

benefit.

Sense 5

sensitivity.

Sense 6

office, quarter, service.

agreeableness

complaisance.

altruism

self-sacrifice.

cordiality

friendliness.

favor

accommodation.

kindness

niceness.

moral excellence

virtue.

tolerance

good nature.

understanding

thoughtfulness.

Other synonyms and related words:

favor, good turn, kindliness, turn, pity, tenderheartedness, diplomacy, good nature, office, sensitivity, solicitude, friendliness, favour, niceness, softheartedness, graciousness, Almsgiving, largeheartedness, warmheartedness, benefit, roughness, leniency, courtesy, commiseration, feeling, humaneness, service, lenity, humanity, virtue, christianity, largesse, complaisance, good-heartedness, ruth, mercy, consideration, bounty, kindheartedness, indulgence, pardon, benignancy, sympathy, amenity, bigheartedness, friendship, thoughtfulness, grace, compassionateness, goodness, warmth, quarter, femininity, forgivingness, blessing, charitableness, oblation, attention, forgiveness, benefaction, heart, goodwill, delicacy.

Sense 3 (noun)

charitableness, goodwill, grace.

Sense 4 (noun)

oblation, office.

affection (noun)

warmth.

benevolence (noun)

beneficence, compassion, magnanimity, altruism, humanitarianism, good will, unselfishness, munificence, bountifulness, neighborliness, philanthropy, motherliness, generosity.

compassion, generosity (noun)

beneficence, forbearance, grace, graciousness, mildness, courtesy, solicitude, goodness, heart, clemency, kindliness, charity, tolerance, thoughtfulness, cordiality, gentleness, good will, amiability, consideration, tenderness, humanity, altruism, delicacy, unselfishness, indulgence, magnanimity, philanthropy, sympathy, benevolence.

courtesy (noun)

graciousness, unselfishness.

forgiveness (noun)

clemency, pardon.

generosity (noun)

liberality, largesse, kindheartedness, Almsgiving.

good manners (noun)

courtesy.

helping act; service (noun)

blessing, generosity, mercy, favor, benefaction, good turn, accommodation, bounty.

kindliness (noun)

good will.

kindness (noun)

benignity, forgivingness.

lenity (noun)

lenity.

mildness (noun)

easiness, mildness, geniality, benignity, evenness, charity, liberalness, quietness, liberty, lenience, clemency, open-mindedness, amiability, insipidity, tolerance, gentleness, forbearance, benevolence, acceptance, meekness, tenderness, libertarianism, liberality, peaceableness, permissiveness, moderation, latitude, broad-mindedness, cordiality, laxity, moderateness, softness.

Usage examples for kindness:

• I should have been very sorry if you had gone, because I wanted to thank you for your kindness last night." - "Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir", Charles Garvice.
• Will you have the kindness to answer me? - "The Gadfly", E. L. Voynich.
• If only his eyes had not shone with that suffering loving kindness. - "The Song of Songs", Hermann Sudermann.