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Graciousness

Quality of being gracious.

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Narrower term 3

Blandness 76% connected

The state or quality of being bland.

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Smoothness 76% connected

Quality or state of being smooth.

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Suavity 76% connected

Sweetness to the taste.

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Courtesy 76% connected

Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

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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Gracious 74% connected

Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor;…

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Gracious 74% connected

Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor;…

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Benign 66% connected

Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

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Benign 66% connected

Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

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Benignant 66% connected

Kind; gracious; favorable.

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Benignant 66% connected

Kind; gracious; favorable.

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Synonym 2

Benignancy 92% connected

Benignant quality; kindliness.

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Benignity 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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