Goodness

English

Noun

Goodness (countable and uncountable; plural Goodnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.
2. (countable) The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
3. (uncountable, euphemisms) God.

   Thank goodness that the war is over!

4. (Christianity) The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Galatians, 5:22:

     The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.

Synonyms

• virtue

Derived terms

• my goodness!

Adjectives for Goodness

mantled; wholesome; innate; inherent; natural; hearty; infinite; adorable; undeserved; essential; true; full; awful; delicious; breathing; invisible; unusual; universal; tasty; obedient; hypocritical.

Thesaurus

Christianity, Christlikeness, Christliness, affability, affectionateness, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, angelicalness, appropriateness, assured probity, beauty of holiness, beneficialness, benignancy, benignity, blamelessness, bliss, blissfulness, brotherhood, character, cleanness, compassion, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, correctitude, correctness, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, delectability, deliciousness, enjoyableness, erectness, estimableness, fairness, fear of God, feeling of kinship, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fine flavor, fitness, fittingness, flavorfulness, flavoriness, flavorousness, flavorsomeness, fraternal feeling, full flavor, geniality, godlikeness, godliness, godly-mindedness, good character, good flavor, good taste, goodliness, goodness of heart, gourmet quality, grace, graciousness, gustatory delightfulness, harmoniousness, healthfulness, healthiness, heart of gold, heavenliness, heavenly-mindedness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, holiness, holy-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, humaneness, humanity, immaculacy, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition, kindness, loving kindness, lusciousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, merit, moral excellence, moral rectitude, moral strength, morale, morality, niceness, nobility, normality, normativeness, odor of sanctity, oh, otherworldliness, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, principles, probity, properness, proprieties, propriety, pureness, pureness of heart, purity, quality, rapport, rectitude, reputability, respectability, right conduct, right taste, righteousness, rightness, sainthood, saintlikeness, saintliness, saintship, salubriousness, salubrity, salutariness, sanctitude, sanctity, sapidity, savoriness, scrumptiousness, seemliness, seraphicalness, softheartedness, soul of kindness, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, stainlessness, suitability, superiority, sweetness, sympathy, tastiness, tenderheartedness, toothsomeness, unearthliness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, unworldliness, uprightness, upstandingness, virtue, virtuousness, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart, welcomeness, wholesomeness, worthiness

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Etymology

good

Translations

state or characteristic of being good

Albanian: mirësi (sq) f. Anglo-Norman: bonté, bounté Czech: dobrota (cs) f. Dutch: goedheid (nl) f. Esperanto: boneco (eo) French: bonté (fr) f. Ido: boneso (io) Italian: bontà (it)

Latin: bonitas (la) Old French: bonté f. Romanian: bunătate (ro) Spanish: bondad (es) f. Swahili: uzuri (sw) Swedish: godhet

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Cebuano: kaayo Finnish: hyvyys French: bonté

Italian: bontà Kurdish: باشی, چاکه‌

External links

• Goodness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Goodness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Goodness at OneLook Dictionary Search