Benignity

Definitions: Benignity

Benignity

Noun

1. The quality of being kind and gentle.

2. A kind act.

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

Synonyms: Benignity

Synonyms: benignancy (n), graciousness (n), kindness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: malignity (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Benevolence	Good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness; Adjective: loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love; friendship.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Benignity

English words defined with "benignity": angelic, angelical ♦ beatific ♦ fatherliness ♦ paternal quality ♦ sainted, saintlike, saintly. (references)

"Benignity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Benignity" is used about 8 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)	100%	8	124,375

Language		Translations for "benignity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zemërmirësi (bonhomie), nder (boon, complaisance, credit, distinction, fair dealing, Favor, favour, honor, honour, kindness, service). (various references)

Arabic		‏كرم (fete, geniality, hospitality, kindness, lionize, vineyard), ‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ‏سلامة (integrity, safety, solidity), ‏رقة (airiness, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, forgiveness, geniality, gentleness, graciousness, loveliness, neatness, polish, refinement, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sleeplessness, softness, suavity, subtlety, tenderling, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness). (various references)

Bulgarian		услуга (favour, kindness, office, service, turn), мекост (geniality), мекота (clemency, kindliness, lenience, leniency, mildness), благост (gentleness, graciousness, mildness), добродетелност, добрина (good nature, goodness, kindliness, kindness). (various references)

Czech		laskavost (benevolence, Favor, favour, goodness, grace, graciousness, kindliness, kindness). (various references)

Danish		benignitet, godartethed. (various references)

Dutch		benigniteit, goedaardigheid. (various references)

French		bénignité. (various references)

German		Benignitaet. (various references)

Greek		καλοκαγαθία. (various references)

Hungarian		jóság (charity, goodness, kindliness, kindness, soul of kindness). (various references)

Italian		benignit� . (various references)

Manx		meiyghys (lenity, tenderness). (various references)

Pig Latin		enignitybay

Portuguese		bondade (alms deed, charity, goodness, grace, humaneness, humanize, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, virtue), benignidade (mile). (various references)

Romanian		bunãtate (bounty, dainties, feeling, goodness, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, virtue), blândeţe (clemency, docility, gentleness, good nature, good-heartedness, good-naturedness, meekness, mildness, softness, steadiness, tameness, tractability). (various references)

Russian		доброта (candor, candour, gentleness, goodness, graciousness, humaneness, kindliness, kindness). (various references)

Scottish		b� idh (kindness, love). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		povoljnost. (various references)

Spanish		benignidad (charitableness, goodness). (various references)

Swedish		välvilja (benevolence, good will, good-will, grace, kindness). (various references)

Turkish		sevecenlik (compassion, humaneness, softness, tenderness), merhamet (Agape, charitableness, charity, clemency, commiseration, compassion, grace, loving kindness, mercy, misericordia, pity, Ruth), iyi kâlplilik (kindheartedness, kind-heartedness). (various references)

Ukranian		добросердність, доброта (candor, candour, geniality, goodness, kindliness, kindness). (various references)

Vietnamese		việc l� m nhân từ (benignancy), lòng tốt (benignancy, goodness), lòng nhân từ việc l� m tốt (benignancy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "benignity" (pronounced 'Be*nig"ni*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-i-n-n-t-y"
	-2 letters: inbeing.
	-3 letters: benign, biting, ignite, intine, ninety, tieing, tining, tyning.
	-4 letters: begin, beigy, being, benni, benny, binge, binit, eying, genii, ginny, inbye, tinge, tinny, tying.
	-5 letters: bent, bine, bint, bite, byte, gent, gibe, gien, gybe, inby, inti, nine, nite, tine, ting, tiny, tyin, tyne, yeti.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-i-n-n-t-y"
	+5 letters: unintelligibly.
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