Synonyms and Antonyms of bigheartedness
1
the capacity for feeling for anotherʼs unhappiness or misfortune
- because of the bigheartedness of her coworkers, she was able to present the charity with a fat check
charity, commiseration, compassion, feeling, good-heartedness, heart, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, largeheartedness, mercy, pity, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, warmheartedness
feelings, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitivity
affection, love, regard
affinity, empathy, rapport
altruism, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, generosity, goodwill, humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, philanthropy
2
the quality or state of being generous
- the commendable bigheartedness of that upscale restaurateur, who uses a portion of her profits to fund a soup kitchen
bountifulness, bounty, generosity, generousness, largesse (also largess), liberality, munificence, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishness
beneficence, charity, kindliness, selflessness
kindness
gift, gratuity, lagniappe
tribute
extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, wastefulness
spendthrift
dissipating, squandering
conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift
conservation, saving
husbanding, managing
scraping
cutting back
cheapness, closeness, meanness, miserliness, parsimony, penuriousness, pinching, selfishness, stinginess, tightness, ungenerosity
