1
as in friendship
kindly concern, interest, or support
the long tradition of goodwill that exists between the United States and Canada
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2
as in willingness
cheerful readiness to do something
took on the task of coaching the soccer team with lots of zeal and goodwill
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Recent Examples of goodwill
DeWitt has feasted on the goodwill of fans, sliding by on bobbleheads and nostalgia.
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Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 June 2025
Coldplay kicked offthe final leg of their historic tour with uninhibited goodwill.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Typically, 90% or more of a team’s purchase price is goodwill, which excludes physical assets a team might possess, such as its stadium and weight room equipment.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Instead, each burned out any goodwill within two years.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 21 May 2025
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Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 June 2025
Coldplay kicked offthe final leg of their historic tour with uninhibited goodwill.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Typically, 90% or more of a team’s purchase price is goodwill, which excludes physical assets a team might possess, such as its stadium and weight room equipment.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Instead, each burned out any goodwill within two years.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goodwill
Noun
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Because the show really is about friendship, unconditional friendship between these four and then five girls.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
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Earlier this week, SZA opened up to Chappell Roan about her friendship with Lizzo during a conversation for Interview Magazine.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
20 June 2025
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Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 June 2025
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That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
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Ring In 2017, a study in the journal Science Advances concluded this friendliness may have been a result of genetic changes over an extended period of time.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 June 2025
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This isn’t the kind of spa where employees avoid your eyeline or won’t greet you in the hallways for fear of interrupting your inner peace, and this genuine friendliness comes as a welcome surprise in the often-intimidating heart of Hollywood.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
3 June 2025
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But while Trump and Putin speak of each other with cordiality, relations are testier between the two countries than the rhetoric would indicate.—
Astha Rajvanshi,
NBC news,
26 May 2025
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His finest strengths are personality and cordiality, and both were amplified on the stage.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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“Goodwill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goodwill. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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