kindness

Other forms of kindness

plural

kindnesses·

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 kindness

What does kindness mean?

kindness means "the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kindness?

kindness has 2 syllables: kind-ness. The stress falls on "kind". In IPA it is /ˈkaɪndnəs/.

What is another word for kindness?

Close synonyms include forgivingness, benignity. 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.

What is the opposite of kindness?

The recorded antonyms are unkindness.

Is kindness a common word?

kindness is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.