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bigheartedness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of bigheartedness

1 the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune
  • Because of the bigheartedness of her coworkers, she was able to present the charity with a fat check.
Synonyms of bigheartedness

charity, commiseration, compassion, feeling, good-heartedness, heart, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, largeheartedness, mercy, pity, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, warmheartedness
Words Related to bigheartedness

feelings, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitivity

affection, love, regard

affinity, empathy, rapport

altruism, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, generosity, goodwill, humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, philanthropy
Near Antonyms of bigheartedness

callousness, coldness, disinterest, indifference, unconcern

cruelty, harshness

animosity, antipathy, dislike, hatred, hostility
Antonyms of bigheartedness

coldheartedness, hard-heartedness, inhumanity, inhumanness, mercilessness, pitilessness
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
Synonyms of bigheartedness

bountifulness, bounty, generosity, generousness, largess (also largesse), liberality, munificence, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishness
Words Related to bigheartedness

beneficence, charity, kindliness, selflessness

kindness

gift, gratuity, lagniappe

tribute

extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, wastefulness

spendthrift

dissipating, squandering
Near Antonyms of bigheartedness

conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift

conservation, saving

husbanding, managing

scraping

cutting back
Antonyms of bigheartedness

cheapness, closeness, meanness, miserliness, parsimony, penuriousness, pinching, selfishness, stinginess, tightness, ungenerosity

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