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ruth

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Synonyms and Antonyms of ruth

the capacity for feeling for anotherʼs unhappiness or misfortune

listening to your flippant comments about the homeless, I wonder if you have any ruth

Synonyms of ruth

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

Words Related to ruth

feelings, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitivity

affection, love, regard

affinity, empathy, rapport

altruism, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, generosity, goodwill, humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, philanthropy

Near Antonyms of ruth

callousness, coldness, disinterest, indifference, unconcern

cruelty, harshness

animosity, antipathy, dislike, hatred, hostility

Antonyms of ruth

coldheartedness, hard-heartedness, inhumanity, inhumanness, mercilessness, pitilessness

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