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altruism
Synonyms and Antonyms of altruism
- charitable acts motivated purely by altruism
- In one final act of altruism, she donated almost all of her money to the hospital.
generosity, magnanimity, nobility
charity, clemency, forbearance, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, mercy, quarter
empathy, pity, selflessness, sympathy, understanding, unselfishness
benevolence, care, civility, compassion, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, humaneness, kindliness, kindness, meekness, mildness, niceness, softness, tenderness
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, uncharitableness
reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance
venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, incivility, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, violence, wantonness
castigation, chastisement, discipline, punishment, scolding
abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, hate, hatred, loathing
cattiness, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, gall, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment
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