Synonyms of magnanimity

magnanimity

noun

as in generosity

the quality of displaying kind or generous treatment toward others especially when they are undeserving of it

I can't believe she had the magnanimity to forgive that drunk driver who wrecked her car.

Related Words

• generosity
• grace
• kindness
• altruism
• mercy
• compassion
• nobleness
• mercifulness
• nobility
• sympathy
• empathy
• humanitarianism
• understanding
• pity
• tenderness
• high-mindedness
• philanthropy
• goodness
• benevolence
• gentleness
• goodwill
• bigheartedness
• meekness
• kindliness
• humaneness
• softness
• commiseration
• forbearance
• clemency
• affection
• mildness
• leniency
• lenity
• favor
• devotion
• niceness
• lenience
• worship
• love
• care
• charity
• quarter

Dissimilar Words

• ruthlessness
• revenge
• vengeance
• retaliation
• retribution
• cruelty
• vindictiveness
• violence
• virulence
• punishment
• savagery
• brutality
• spite
• barbarity
• reprisal
• viciousness
• hatred
• venom
• uncharitableness
• mercilessness
• discipline
• sadism
• truculence
• vitriol
• savageness
• malice
• requital
• pitilessness
• wantonness
• atrocity
• meanness
• hard-heartedness
• hostility
• malevolence
• scolding
• abhorrence
• chastisement
• enmity
• malignity
• antagonism
• hate
• castigation
• animosity
• jealousy
• detestation
• loathing
• spleen
• resentment
• malignancy
• maliciousness
• antipathy
• abomination
• bitterness
• execration
• gall
• nastiness
• spitefulness
• bile
• grudge
• rancor
• jaundice
• pique
• hardness
• harshness
• roughness
• coarseness
• invidiousness
• cattiness
• hatefulness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of magnanimity

That level of humility and magnanimity would go a long way these days. —Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2024

Lastly, there is the charity itself, which, for all its magnanimity, has glamorous roots. —Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 July 2024

This act of magnanimity has unintended repercussions. —Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024

His magnanimity may have been intended to compensate for his earlier razing of Rotterdam and to preclude his prosecution for ordering the extermination of thousands of Russian Jews. —Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015