generousness

1. 1.

   the trait of being willing to give your money or time

   Synonymsgenerosity

   Broaderkindness

   Narrowercharitablenessbountybigheartednessliberalityunselfishness

Other forms of generousness

plural

generousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about generousness

What does generousness mean?

generousness means "the trait of being willing to give your money or time".

How many syllables are in generousness?

generousness has 4 syllables: ge-ne-rou-sness. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for generousness?

Close synonyms include generosity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is generousness a common word?

generousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.