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Beneficence

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

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Benevolence 76% connected

The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.

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Good 76% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Goodness 76% connected

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; go…

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Grace 76% connected

The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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Beneficent 74% connected

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

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Beneficent 74% connected

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

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Beneficent 66% connected

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

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Beneficent 66% connected

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

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Mischief 94% connected

Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…

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Mischief 94% connected

Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…

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a low area where the land is saturated with water

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orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Prolificacy noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Rankness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Richness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Ability noun · 84% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 84% connection

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Adequacy noun · 84% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Bad noun · 84% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Fenland noun · 84% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Words connected by meaning

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Act noun · 78% connection

Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Active adjective · 78% connection

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities;…

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Activity noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing varie…

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Allowance noun · 78% connection

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any p…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Animosity verb · 78% connection

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Benignity noun · 78% connection

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Bounties pl. · 78% connection

of Bounty

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Bounty noun · 78% connection

Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Cant verb · 78% connection

To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a can…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Charitable adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institut…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, doing, good, active, goodness.
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Contemplative noun · 78% connection

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

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