Thesaurus
gentleness
Synonyms and Antonyms of gentleness
- The students quickly learned that despite their new teacher's gentleness, good grades had to be earned through hard work.
benignity, kindliness, kindness
affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amiableness, geniality, good-naturedness, good-temperedness, graciousness, niceness, personableness, pleasantness, sweetness
beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, compassionateness, good-heartedness, humaneness, kindheartedness, softheartedness, tenderheartedness, warmheartedness
forbearance, indulgence, lenience, patience, softness, tenderness, tolerance
compliance, pliability, pliancy
flexibility, laxness, mildness
amenability, complaisance, mellowness, sweetness and light
clemency, leniency, mercifulness
altruism, charitableness, charity
generosity, greatheartedness, magnanimity, philanthropy, unselfishness
amicability, amicableness, amity, cordiality, empressement, friendliness, gemütlichkeit
cheerfulness, cheeriness, sunniness
civility, comity, considerateness, consideration, courteousness, courtesy, politeness, thoughtfulness
gentility, mannerliness, manners
attractiveness, delightfulness, enjoyableness, likability, likableness, pleasingness
diffidence, faintheartedness, hesitancy, timidity, timidness, timorousness
exactingness, hardness, harshness, inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency
callousness, hard-heartedness, implacability, obduracy, obdurateness, pitilessness
disagreeableness, unpleasantness
inconsiderateness, insensitivity, thoughtlessness
biliousness, cantankerousness, churlishness, crankiness, fussiness, grouchiness, grumpiness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, peevishness, petulance, testiness
contentiousness, contrariness, orneriness, quarrelsomeness, querulousness
audaciousness, audacity, brass, brassiness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah (also chutzpa), crust, effrontery, face, gall, nerve, nerviness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, sauce, sauciness, temerity
boorishness, discourtesy, impoliteness, incivility, rudeness, ungraciousness
hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, meanness, spitefulness, virulence, vitriol
barbarity, barbarousness, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, cold-bloodedness, cruelty, heartlessness, inhumanity, savageness, savagery, unfeelingness, unkindliness, unkindness
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