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Benignancy
Benignant quality; kindliness.
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Broader term 2
Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…
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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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Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
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Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
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Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
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Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
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Kind; gracious; favorable.
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Kind; gracious; favorable.
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Synonym 2
The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.
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Quality of being gracious.
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Antonym 2
Alt. of Malignancy
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Alt. of Malignancy
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