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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)
Familiarity information: CHARITABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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