Kindliness
What it means
A steady warmth and helpful gentleness in dealing with others.
Reach for it when naming the reassuring quality behind considerate treatment
The librarian's kindliness gave nervous readers courage to ask questions.
Words to choose between 6
| everyday | |
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| warm | |
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everyday
Fits when the broad quality or a caring act is meant
Careful Kindness is less focused on a warm manner.
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warm
Fits when softness of manner protects another person
Careful Gentleness need not involve active goodwill.
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warm
Fits when friendly feeling is immediately perceptible
Careful Warmth can exist without practical helpfulness.
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professional
Fits when a cooperative disposition is the point
Careful Goodwill may remain an attitude without caring conduct.
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formal
Fits when goodwill is expressed from a position able to help
Careful Benevolence can sound distant or paternal.
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formal
Fits when courtesy remains generous under strain
Careful Polished manners alone do not establish kindliness.
Opposites 3
- cruelty
- coldness
- harshness
Common phrases 3
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natural kindliness
Her natural kindliness made introductions feel easy rather than forced.
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quiet kindliness
A quiet kindliness shaped the way he corrected each apprentice.
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air of kindliness
The host's air of kindliness calmed a room full of strangers.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Qwertygiy, American accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Updated