[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

kindness \kind"ness\, n. from kind. a.
   1. the state or quality of being kind, in any of its various
      senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition
      beneficence.
      1913 webster

            i do fear thy nature;
            it is too full o' the milk of human kindness
            to catch the nearest way.             --shak.
      1913 webster

            unremembered acts
            of kindness and of love.              --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   2. a kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great
      kindness.

   syn: good will; benignity; grace; tenderness; compassion;
        humanity; clemency; mildness; gentleness; goodness;
        generosity; beneficence; favor.
        1913 webster
see also:
kind 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

kindness
     n 1: the quality of being warm-hearted and considerate and humane
          and sympathetic ant: unkindness
     2: tendency to be kind and forgiving syn: forgivingness
     3: a kind act syn: benignity
see also:
unkindness forgivingness benignity 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

129 moby thesaurus words for "kindness":
   accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness,
   affability, agreeableness, aid, amiability, amiableness,
   amicability, amicableness, amity, assistance, auspiciousness,
   benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence,
   benignity, blessing, charitableness, charity, class, clemency,
   cogency, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, compliance,
   condolence, condonation, congeniality, consideration, cordiality,
   courtesy, decency, desert, dispensation, disregard, excellence,
   expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling, fineness,
   first-rateness, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness,
   friendliness, friendship, generosity, generousness, geniality,
   gentleness, good deed, good offices, good turn, goodliness,
   goodness, grace, graciosity, graciousness, healthiness,
   helpfulness, hospitality, humaneness, humanity, indulgence,
   kind deed, kind offices, kindliness, kindly act, labor of love,
   leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, love, magnanimity, mercy,
   merit, mitigation, mitzvah, neighborlikeness, neighborliness,
   niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, overlooking, pardon,
   pathos, patience, peaceableness, philanthropy, pity, pleasantness,
   profitableness, quality, quarter, relief, reprieve, rewardingness,
   ruth, self-pity, service, skillfulness, sociability, soundness,
   superiority, sympathy, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, turn,
   understanding, unhostility, unrevengefulness, usefulness, validity,
   value, virtue, virtuousness, warmth, well-affectedness, wholeness,
   worth

[4] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

kindness, n.  a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

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