loving-kindness

1. 1.

   tender kindness motivated by a feeling of affection

   Broaderkindness

Questions about loving-kindness

What does loving-kindness mean?

loving-kindness means "tender kindness motivated by a feeling of affection".

How many syllables are in loving-kindness?

loving-kindness has 4 syllables and divides as lo-ving--kind-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is loving-kindness a common word?

loving-kindness 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.