Kind-heartedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of kindheartedness. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "With such people, one is not secure in regard to owed duties; they hate owed duty, and prefer to do everything on their own” out of kind-heartedness and benevolence."

  2. 2
    sympathy arising from a kind heart wordnet

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"But under all her sparkle there was a strongly felt undercurrent of true, womanly sympathy and kind-heartedness which won affection as easily as her brilliancy won admiration. Nor did she monopolize the conversation. She could draw others out as skillfully and fully as she could talk herself."

Etymology

From kind-hearted + -ness.

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