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Revision as of 01:55, 7 March 2022
English
Etymology
From Middle French générosité, from Latin generōsitas.
Pronunciation
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Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒsɪti
- Hyphenation: ge‧ne‧ros‧i‧ty
Noun
generosity (countable and uncountable, plural generosities)
- (uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money, time or resources.
- 1963: Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society
- We have mentioned generosity as an outstanding virtue required in Sioux life.
- 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- 1963: Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society
- (countable) A generous act.
- 1873: Reverend M. C. Tyler, Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Sage College of the Cornell University
- May the generosities of the founders of these halls, be rewarded by the fair and holy characters which shall be here formed […] .
- 1873: Reverend M. C. Tyler, Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Sage College of the Cornell University
- (uncountable) The trait of being abundant, more than adequate.
- (archaic, uncountable) Good breeding; nobility of stock.
Synonyms
- liberality
- (good breeding, noble stock): nobility
Antonyms
Translations
the trait of being willing to donate
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acting generously
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the trait of being more than adequate
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good breeding; nobility of stock
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a generous act
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- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 5-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/ɒsɪti
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with archaic senses
- English words suffixed with -osity