gentleness
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛntlnəs/
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gentileza
- His gentleness made the children feel safe and loved.
- kindness and gentleness
- gentleness and patience
- goodness and gentleness
It stands in secret alliance with the cheerfulness and gentleness of creative longing.
- It stands in secret alliance with the cheerfulness and gentleness of creative longing.
- There's a kindness that exudes out of this man, a gentleness yet strength that no one else has.
- And also I suggest that deep grace brings deep patience with it and deep gentleness.
- I feel like just approaching things with this, this gentleness, this lightness really, really empowers us.
- You know, try to have gentleness with them, kind words.
- Second, give yourself a little space and gentleness when you feel irritable by doing.
- And it created this feeling of of acceptance and gentleness and empathy because deer are very gentle.
- I thought, you know, he where he went, he created a little calm space around him of, of, of gentleness, of, of niceness, of kindness.
- And sadly, trauma bonding often means that the gentleness and deliberateness of being cherished is often written off as dull or unexciting.
Examples
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And you've still got a gentleness that not even the war could take away.
Fiction book (1996) -
There's a kindness that exudes out of this man, a gentleness yet strength that no one else has.
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You know, try to have gentleness with them, kind words.
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And so I think one piece of that is bringing in some gentleness with the self.
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You brought out a gentleness in me that I thought was dead, gone.
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Never had I seen such gentleness and compassion in one so young.
Fiction book (1995) -
Evidence of that appears in our gentleness in the classroom and in the culture we form around our schools.
Academic text (2005) -
Second, give yourself a little space and gentleness when you feel irritable.
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Arthur wears his power so lightly, has such gentleness in his eyes.
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We have seen some of the forms that gentleness takes within the walls of a middle-class household.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
297
1.0
Friendly and generous actions that help or comfort other people
41
3.4
A gentle caring feeling of love and concern for someone
16
6.1
Kind feelings and actions that help other people
11
1.3
A kind and polite way of treating other people
3
1.8
A gentle, kind way of acting toward others
1
5.2
A warm, gentle feeling of care and concern for other people
1
3.7
A gentle way of touching or handling people and objects
1
3.3
A gentle, calm way of treating people
1
3.2
Being friendly, generous, and caring to other people
1
8.1
A kind, gentle way of acting that makes people feel safe
A kind, gentle feeling that makes you feel sorry for others and want to help them
A kind feeling that makes you easily feel sorry for people in need
A kind, gentle way of acting that makes people feel cared for
Kindness and forgiveness shown to people you could punish
Being kind and not strict when judging or punishing someone
Antonyms
How Gentle
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gentleness comes from the old word gentle, which once meant 'noble' and later came to mean 'soft' or 'kind', and you can see the same root in gentleman. So, gentleness is the quality of being 'kind' and 'mild'.