Antonyms for generosity
ˌdʒɛn əˈrɒs ɪ tigen·eros·i·ty

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1. generositynoun

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

   Synonyms:
   liberality

2. generositynoun

   the trait of being willing to donate money and/or time

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

   Synonyms:
   liberality, nobility

3. generositynoun

   acting generously

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

   Synonyms:
   nobility, liberality

4. generositynoun

   the trait of being more than adequate

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

   Synonyms:
   liberality, nobility

5. generositynoun

   good breeding; nobility of stock

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

   Synonyms:
   nobility, liberality

6. generositynoun

   a generous act

   Synonyms:
   nobility, liberality

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. generosity

   According to the etymology and original usage, beneficence is the doing well, benevolence the wishing or willing well to others; but benevolence has come to include beneficence, and to displace it. We should not now speak of benevolence which did not help, unless where there was no power to help; even then we should rather say good-will or sympathy. Charity, which originally meant the purest love for God and man (as in 1 Cor. xiii), is now almost universally applied to some form of almsgiving, and is much more limited in meaning than benevolence. Benignity suggests some occult power of blessing, such as was formerly ascribed to the stars; we may say a good man has an air of benignity. Kindness and tenderness are personal; benevolence and charity are general. Kindness extends to all sentient beings, whether men or animals, in prosperity or in distress. Tenderness especially goes out toward the young, feeble, and needy, or even to the dead. Humanity is so much kindness and tenderness toward man or beast as it would be inhuman not to have; we say of some act of care or kindness, "common humanity requires it." Generosity is self-forgetful kindness in disposition or action; it includes much besides giving; as, the generosity of forgiveness. Bounty applies to ample giving, which on a larger scale is expressed by munificence. Liberality indicates broad, genial kindly views, whether manifested in gifts or otherwise. We speak of the bounty of a generous host, the liberality or munificence of the founder of a college, or of the liberality of a theologian toward the holders of conflicting beliefs. Philanthropy applies to wide schemes for human welfare, often, but not always, involving large expenditures in charity or benevolence. Compare MERCY.

   Antonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness

   Synonyms:
   almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness

   Preposition:
   Benevolence of, on the part of, or from the wealthy, to or toward the poor.

Matched Categories

1. • Kindness
   • Sharing

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. generosity, generousnessnoun

   the trait of being willing to give your money or time

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

   Synonyms:
   unselfishness, generousness

2. generosity, unselfishnessnoun

   acting generously

   Antonyms:
   stinginess

   Synonyms:
   unselfishness, generousness

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1. generositynoun

   Synonyms:
   magnanimity, nobleness, liberality, munificence, bounty, bountifulness, beneficence, lavishsess

How to use generosity in a sentence?

1. Will Rogers:

   I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

2. Confucius:

   To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

3. Josephine Hart, "Sin":

   We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

4. Jean Trebek:

   The show's generosity continues to reflect Alex's desire to assist underrepresented communities.

5. Simone Weil:

   Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

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