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KINDHEARTEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kindheartedness mean?
• KINDHEARTEDNESS (noun)
The noun KINDHEARTEDNESS has 1 sense:
1. sympathy arising from a kind heart
Familiarity information: KINDHEARTEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sympathy arising from a kind heart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
kind-heartedness; kindheartedness
Hypernyms ("kindheartedness" is a kind of...):
fellow feeling; sympathy (sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish))
Derivation:
kindhearted (having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition)
Context examples
Fanny, in her pity and kindheartedness, was at great pains to teach him how to learn, giving him all the helps and directions in her power, trying to make an artificial memory for him, and learning every word of his part herself, but without his being much the forwarder.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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