benignity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: be=nig=ni=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

benignity, n. [OE. benignite, F. bénignité, OF. bénigneté, fr. L. benignitas. See Benign.].

•  The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]
•  Mildness; gentleness.  [1913 Webster]

  "The benignity or inclemency of the season."  [1913 Webster]
•  Salubrity; wholesome quality.  Wiseman.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

benignity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 kindliness.
2 an act of kindness.

Etymology

ME f. OF benignit{eacute} or L benignitas (as BENIGN)

THESAURUS

benignity

accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness, affability, affectionateness, agreeableness, amiability, auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignancy, blessing, brightness, brotherhood, cheerfulness, cheeriness, class, cogency, compassion, complaisance, compliance, courtesy, decency, desert, excellence, expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, fineness, first-rateness, fortunateness, fraternal feeling, generousness, good auspices, good deed, good offices, good omen, good turn, goodliness, goodness, goodness of heart, grace, graciosity, graciousness, harmlessness, healthiness, heart of gold, helpfulness, humaneness, humanity, hurtlessness, innocence, innocuousness, inoffensiveness, kind deed, kind offices, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly act, kindly disposition, kindness, labor of love, loving kindness, luckiness, mercy, merit, mitzvah, niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, pleasantness, profitableness, propitiousness, prosperousness, quality, rewardingness, service, skillfulness, softheartedness, soul of kindness, soundness, superiority, sympathy, tenderheartedness, turn, uninjuriousness, unobnoxiousness, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart, wholeness, worth

ROGET THESAURUS

benignity

Benevolence

N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.