Benevolence

Noun

 * 1)  disposition to do good
 * 2)  charitable kindness
 * 3)  an altruistic gift or act

Adjectives for Benevolence
unexpected; winged; remarkable; defective; private; expansive; factitious; tolerant; vague; world-wide; significant; muscle-loosening; red-blooded; social; despotic; easy; universal; dominant; sympathetic; amused; innate.

Verbs for Benevolence
assist through—; assure one of—; contribute—; depend upon—; disguise—; dispense with—; encourage—; endow with—; exercise—; exploit—; expose—; flourish under —; manifest—; practice—; promote—; reform by—; rejoice in—; rouse—; support with—; surprise by—; withhold—; —aids; —consoles; —delights; —relieves; —shines.

Synonyms for Benevolence
beneficence, humanity, kindness, benignity, tenderness, bounty, almsgiving, kindheartedness, charity, goodwill, sympathy, generosity, liberality, philanthropy, kindliness, munificence, unselfishness.

Antonyms for Benevolence
malevolence, hatred, ill will, envy, selfishness, malignity, unkindness.

Thesaurus
accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness, affability, agape, agreeableness, altruism, amiability, amity, auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, benignancy, benignity, bigheartedness, blessing, boon, brightness, brotherly love, caritas, charitableness, charity, cheerfulness, cheeriness, class, clemency, cogency, comity, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, compliance, compliment, condolence, condonation, contribution, courtesy, decency, desert, disregard, do-goodism, donation, excellence, expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling, fineness, first-rateness, flower power, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortunateness, friendliness, friendship, generosity, generousness, gift, giving, good auspices, good deed, good offices, good omen, good turn, goodliness, goodness, goodwill, grace, graciosity, graciousness, grant, greatheartedness, healthiness, helpfulness, humanitarianism, humanity, indulgence, kind deed, kind offices, kindliness, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, largeheartedness, largess, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, love, love of mankind, luckiness, magnanimity, manna, mercy, merit, mitigation, mitzvah, niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, overlooking, pardon, pathos, patience, philanthropism, philanthropy, pity, pleasantness, present, profitableness, propitiousness, prosperousness, quality, quarter, relief, reprieve, rewardingness, ruth, self-pity, service, skillfulness, soundness, superiority, sympathy, tolerance, turn, unrevengefulness, unselfishness, usefulness, utilitarianism, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, welfarism, well-disposedness, wholeness, worth

Derived terms

 * benevolent