Beneficence

Definitions: Beneficence

Beneficence

Noun

1. Doing good; feeling beneficent.

2. The quality of being kind or helpful or generous.

Date "beneficence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Beneficence

Synonyms: Benevolence, BOUNTY, Charity, KINDNESS, Munificence. (additional references)

Antonym: maleficence (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Benevolence	Charitableness; Adjective: bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence, "the luxury of doing good ".
Inexpedience	Beneficence; good man.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Beneficence

English words defined with "beneficence": Beneficential, Beneficently ♦ grace ♦ Queen Anne's bounty ♦ Sisters of Charity ♦ To win on. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Beneficence and Health Care (reference) Beneficence, Philanthropy and the Public Good (reference) For the Patients Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care (reference) Informed Consent: Patient Autonomy and Clinician Beneficence Within Health Care (Clinical Medical Ethics Series) (reference) Marx, Morality, and the Virtue of Beneficence (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Hannah More	Christian beneficence takes a large sweep; that circumference cannot be small of which God is the centre.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Finally his coming had been a beneficence, and his presence was a providence.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Only 30 percent of seniors have social security affiliation, and the rest use private medical services or go public hospitals open to the public, and beneficence health care services. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Grover Cleveland	1885-1889; 1893-1897	If we exact from unwilling minds acquiescence in the theory of an honest distribution of the fund of the governmental beneficence treasured up for all, we but insist upon a principle which underlies our free institutions.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Beneficence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Beneficence" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.44%	17	85,106
Noun (proper)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "beneficence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bamirësi (charity, dole, philanthropy), mirëbërësi (benefaction, goodness), dashamirësi (affability, amiability, benevolence, geniality, goodwill, kindness). (various references)

Arabic		‏الإحسان (alodium, kindness). (various references)

Bulgarian		благотворителност (benevolence, charity), дарение (donation, dower, endowment, gift, grant, oblation, offering). (various references)

Chinese		澤 (marsh). (various references)

Czech		dobroèinnost (charity, philanthropy). (various references)

Farsi		نیکی , نیکوکاری (Charity), احسان (Benefit, Boon), بخشش (Boon, Bounty, Generosity, Gift, Grace, Grant, Magneficence, Mercy, Munificence, Pardon, Pity, Profusion, Release, Remission). (various references)

French		bienfaisance (benevolence). (various references)

German		wohltätigkeit (charitableness, charity). (various references)

Greek		αγαθοεργία (benevolence, welfare). (various references)

Hungarian		jótékonyság (benefaction, benevolence, bounty, charity, gratefulness, pious deeds). (various references)

Indonesian		kemurahan hati (bounty). (various references)

Italian		beneficenza (benefaction). (various references)

Manx		miallys (benefaction, bountifulness, clemency, gentleness, humaneness, philanthropy). (various references)

Pig Latin		eneficencebay

Portuguese		beneficência (charity, well doing). (various references)

Russian		благотворительность (alms deed, alms-deed, benevolence, charity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		milosrđe (alms deed, charity, mercifulness, quarter), dobrotvornost. (various references)

Spanish		beneficencia (charity). (various references)

Swedish		välgörenhet (benefaction, beneficial, charity). (various references)

Turkish		iyilik (favour, goodness, kindliness, kindness, loving kindness, well being), ihsan, hayır (Agape, auspiciousness, benefaction, charity, good, nay, no, nope). (various references)

Ukranian		милосердя (alms, charity, clemency, lenity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness), благодіяння (benefaction), добродійність (benefaction, benevolence, blessing, well doing). (various references)

Vietnamese		việc l� m phúc, tính từ thiện, tính hay thương người việc thiện, từ tâm (beneficent, beneficently). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	beneficientiae. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "beneficence": beneficences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beneficence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beneficene, beneficience, benefience, benificence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "beneficence" (pronounced bune"fusuns)
5	-u s u n s	innocence, reconnaissance, reticence.
4	-s u n s	absence, acquiescence, adolescence, convalescence, essence, evanescence, licence, license, luminescence, nuisance, obsolescence, phosphorescence, quintessence, reminiscence, senescence.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, adherence, admirations, admittance, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, luminance, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, obedience, observance, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-e-f-i-n-n"
	-3 letters: benefice.
	-4 letters: benefic.
	-5 letters: fennec.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-e-f-i-n-n"
	+1 letter: beneficences.
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