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The state of feeling kindly towards someone or something, or the actions inspired thereby.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Elmo looked upon his only granddaughter with kindliness, and often relented to her demands for chocolate.
- 1774, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man, Edinburgh: A. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1788, Volume 3, Sketch 10, Public Police with respect to the Poor, pp. 98-99, Creatures loathsome by disease or nastiness, affect the air in a poor-house; and have little chance for life, without more care and kindliness than can be expected from servants, rendered callous by continual scenes of misery.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Favourableness; mildness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1798, Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Canterbury: W. Bristow, 2nd edition, Volume 6, “Newington,” p. 42, [...] great part of it [...] was formerly planted with orchards of apples, cherries, and other kind of fruit, but these falling to decay, and the high price of hops yielding a more advantageous return, many of them were displanted, and hops raised in their stead, the scite of an old orchard, being particularly adapted for the purpose, which, with the kindliness of the soil for that plant, produced large crops of it [...]
- 1803, The Farmer’s Magazine, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 4, No. 15, August 1803, Review of agricultural publications, “General View of the Agriculture of the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk,” p. 318, The one third of the sheep kept are of the short-bodied, black-faced, coarse-wooled kinds; which our author justly celebrates, as highly adapted for coarser pasture, from their hardiness and superior kindliness in feeding.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Naturalness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: helpfulness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: friendliness
Etymology tree English kindly Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English kindliness From kindly + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
добрина
(dobrina)
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Czech:
vlídnost
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Czech:
laskavost
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Dutch:
vriendelijkheid
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Ancient Greek:
φῐλίᾱ
(phĭlíā)
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Hungarian:
szívélyesség
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Hungarian:
kedvesség
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Hungarian:
jóság
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Hungarian:
jóindulat
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
caoideanas
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
caoithiúlacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
conlacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
dailbhe
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
daonnacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
duineatacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
duiniúlacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
láíocht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
méiniúlacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
nádúr
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
nádúrthacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Irish:
cineáltas
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Middle Irish:
dóendacht
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Italian:
bonarietà
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Manx:
kenjallys
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Portuguese:
amabilidade
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Romanian:
bunătate
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Spanish:
amabilidad
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
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Ugaritic:
𐎀𐎐𐎌𐎚
(anšt)
— the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something
