Synonyms of good-heartedness

good-heartedness

noun

1

as in kindness

sympathetic concern for the well-being of others

the woman's inherent good-heartedness impelled her to share the little food she had

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kindness
• tenderness
• humaneness
• tenderheartedness
• generosity
• kindheartedness
• benevolence
• warmth
• beneficence
• benignity
• warmheartedness
• kindliness
• attentiveness
• thoughtfulness
• benignancy
• compassionateness
• friendliness
• softheartedness
• considerateness
• patience
• mercifulness
• affability
• graciousness
• niceness
• tolerance
• pleasantness
• good-naturedness
• understanding
• altruism
• charitableness
• leniency
• magnanimity
• clemency
• unselfishness
• good-temperedness
• philanthropy
• charity
• greatheartedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cruelty
• heartlessness
• brutality
• callousness
• savagery
• inhumanity
• barbarity
• ruthlessness
• brutishness
• unkindness
• savageness
• bestiality
• mercilessness
• hard-heartedness
• toughness
• insensitivity
• cold-bloodedness
• thoughtlessness
• severity
• inconsiderateness
• pitilessness
• barbarousness
• unfeelingness
• unkindliness
• sternness
• grimness
• harshness
• malevolence
• meanness
• virulence
• spitefulness
• maliciousness
• hatefulness
• vitriol

2

as in sympathy

the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune

thanks to the good-heartedness of its dedicated volunteers, the soup kitchen has never been understaffed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kindness
• sympathy
• compassion
• heart
• generosity
• pity
• humanity
• mercy
• feelings
• kindheartedness
• feeling
• kindliness
• sensitivity
• warmheartedness
• ruth
• commiseration
• responsiveness
• largeheartedness
• charity
• bigheartedness
• love
• affection
• sensibility
• softheartedness
• regard
• empathy
• altruism
• humanism
• affinity
• rapport
• humanitarianism
• goodwill
• benevolence
• philanthropy
• humaneness
• benignity
• benignancy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifference
• inhumanity
• coldness
• callousness
• cruelty
• disinterest
• unconcern
• mercilessness
• pitilessness
• coldheartedness
• hard-heartedness
• hatred
• inhumanness
• hostility
• harshness
• animosity
• antipathy
• dislike