Definizione di kindness

Frequenza

kindness

(kaɪndnəs )

parola: plural kindnesses

1. sostantivo non numerabile

Kindness is the quality of being gentle, caring, and helpful.

We have been treated with such kindness by everybody.

Sinonimi: goodwill, understanding, charity, grace Ulteriori sinonimi di kindness

2. sostantivo numerabile

A kindness is a helpful or considerate act.

Ulteriori sinonimi di kindness

Video: pronunciation of 'kindness'

Frequenza

kindness in American

(ˈkaɪndnɪs ; kīndˈnis)

sostantivo

the state, quality, or habit of being kind

a kind act or kindly treatment

3. Archaic

kind feeling; affection; goodwill

Parola origine kindness

ME kyndeness

Frequenza

kindness in British

(ˈkaɪndnɪs )

sostantivo

the practice or quality of being kind

a kind, considerate, or helpful act

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For a quality that is thought to be so central to the human condition, kindness is poorly understood. Times, Sunday Times (2016)He was vulnerable, easily led and prone to rage, but also capable of gentle kindness and love. Times, Sunday Times (2016)The best are a source of great wisdom and kindness. Times, Sunday Times (2015)We entered our relationship with love and it is with love and kindness we leave it. Times, Sunday Times (2010)It became one of my favourite books in terms of its kindness and understanding of human frailty. Times, Sunday Times (2013)There was not much kindness or respect in our marriage. Times, Sunday Times (2008)What is always so striking in the face of sheer evil is the outpouring of human kindness. The Sun (2014)Please accept again my profound gratitude for your great kindness to me. Hebblethwaite, Peter Paul VI - The First Modern Pope (1993)Thank you for your love and kindness to me. The Sun (2015)The kindness was too much for the poor epileptic creature. William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)There were inspiring examples of heroism and human kindness. The Sun (2011)But he does so with great kindness and warmth and wit. Times, Sunday Times (2008)She must not presume upon his kindness and make much of her prosaic troubles. Frances Hodgson Burnett Emily Fox-Seton (1901)Lots of people tried to help but he was beyond the reach of human kindness. Times, Sunday Times (2015)Love issues in patience, kindness and goodness. Christianity Today (2000)I thank my family and friends for the kindness and understanding that they have shown me. Times, Sunday Times (2012)

citazioni

Kindness acts
Not always as you think; a hated hand
Renders it odiousCorneille Cinna

Kindness effects more than severityAesop Fables: The Wind and the Sun

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of othersAndré Gide Portraits and Aphorisms

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of loveWilliam Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

Yet I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wayWilliam Shakespeare Macbeth