Synonyms for good will
good will

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1. good will

   Friendship is a deep, quiet, enduring affection, founded upon mutual respect and esteem. Friendship is always mutual; there may be unreciprocated affection or attachment, unrequited love, or even unrecognized and unappreciated devotion, but never unreciprocated or unrequited friendship; one may have friendly feelings toward an enemy, but while there is hostility or coldness on one side there can not be friendship between the two. Friendliness is a quality of friendly feeling, without the deep and settled attachment implied in the state of friendship. Comity is mutual kindly courtesy, with care of each other's right, and amity a friendly feeling and relation, not necessarily implying special friendliness; as, the comity of nations, or amity between neighboring countries. Affection may be purely natural; friendship is a growth. Friendship is more intellectual and less emotional than love; it is easier to give reasons for friendship than for love; friendship is more calm and quiet, love more fervent; love often rises to intensest passion; we can not speak of the passion of friendship. Friendship implies some degree of equality, while love does not; we can speak of man's love toward God, not of his friendship for God. (There is more latitude in the use of the concrete noun friend; Abraham was called "the friend of God;" Christ was called "the friend of sinners.") Compare ACQUAINTANCE; LOVE.

   See synonyms for BATTLE; ENMITY; FEUD; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   affection, amity, attachment, comity, consideration, devotion, esteem, esteem, favor, friendliness, friendship, love, regard

   Preposition:
   The friendship of one person for or toward another, or the friendship between them.

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1. grace, good will, goodwillnoun

   a disposition to kindness and compassion

   "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

2. good will, goodwillnoun

   (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)

   Synonyms:
   grace, goodwill

3. good will, goodwillnoun

   the friendly hope that something will succeed

   Synonyms:
   grace, goodwill

Matched Categories

1. • Accounting
   • Friendliness
   • Good Nature
   • Intangible Asset

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1. good will

   Synonyms:
   benevolence, kindness, GOOD-NATURE

2. good will

   Synonyms:
   earnestness, heartiness, ardor, zeal

3. good will

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) custom (of an established place of business), patronage

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How to use good will in a sentence?

1. Lillian Hellman:

   Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

2. Samantha Power:

   Again, the key is not resting on anybody’s good will or virtue, it’s checks and balances, the rule of law, the integrity of officials.

3. President Trump:

   We’ve also started talking to North Korea directly, we have had direct talks at very high levels, extremely high levels, with North Korea. And I really believe this allows good will, that good things are happening.

4. Nichole Georgeou:

   There's this idea that is in-built in voluntourism that we in the West have the knowledge and the skills to make a difference, we have a right to make a difference, it doesn't even matter if we're unskilled, it's just the good will that matters because we're somehow bonding anyway.

5. Lord Jeffery:

   A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.