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CHARITABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charitableness mean? 

CHARITABLENESS (noun)
  The noun CHARITABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate)play

  Familiarity information: CHARITABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHARITABLENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("charitableness" is a kind of...):

generosity; generousness (the trait of being willing to give your money or time)

Derivation:

charitable (full of love and generosity)

charitable (showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity)

charitable (relating to or characterized by charity)


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