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Synonyms & Antonyms of gentleness
the quality of having a generally kind and agreeable manner
- The students quickly learned that despite their new teacher's gentleness, good grades had to be earned through hard work.
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for gentleness
- 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
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for gentleness
- exactingness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- inflexibility,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- severity,
- sternness,
- strictness,
- stringency
- biliousness,
- cantankerousness,
- churlishness,
- crankiness,
- fussiness,
- grouchiness,
- grumpiness,
- irascibility,
- irascibleness,
- irritability,
- peevishness,
- petulance,
- testiness
- audaciousness,
- audacity,
- brass,
- brassiness,
- brashness,
- brazenness,
- cheek,
- cheekiness,
- chutzpah
- (also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa),
- crust,
- effrontery,
- face,
- gall,
- nerve,
- nerviness,
- pertness,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- sauce,
- sauciness,
- temerity
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