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helpfulness
[help-fuhl] 
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helpfulness
[help-fuhl]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance |
| Synonyms: | aid, convenience, help, usefulness |
| Main Entry: | encouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, consoling, easement, enlivening, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, inspiritment, invigoration, optimism, promotion, reassurance, reassuring, refreshment, relief, relieving, reward, shot in the arm, softening, solacing, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging |
| Antonyms: | denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | good will/goodwill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points, charity, comity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, good side of, helpfulness, rapport, right side of, sympathy, tolerance |
| Antonyms: | meanness |
| Main Entry: | kindness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compassion, generosity |
| Synonyms: | affection, altruism, amiability, beneficence, benevolence, charity, clemency, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, delicacy, fellow feeling, forbearance, gentleness, good intention, good will, goodness, grace, graciousness, heart, helpfulness, hospitality, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, magnanimity, mildness, patience, philanthropy, serviceability, solicitousness, solicitude, sweetness, sympathy, tact, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, meanness |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear, wont, worth |
| Main Entry: | good will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points, charity, comity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, goodwill, helpfulness, kindness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | thoughtfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consideration |
| Synonyms: | helpfulness, indulgence, kindness, understanding |
| Antonyms: | inconsiderateness, thoughtlessness, unthoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | unselfishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generosity |
| Synonyms: | altruism, beneficence, benevolence, charity, helpfulness, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness, philanthropy |
| Antonyms: | avarice, cupidity, greed, selfishness |
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