largeheartedness
Spirit of giving
Largeheartedness is the quality of being generous, sympathetic, and kind.
Someone with largeheartedness gives freely—whether money, time, or emotional support—without expecting return.
The term suggests an expansive capacity for compassion: Her largeheartedness made everyone feel welcome.
Prioritizing others' wellbeing
- unselfishnessConcern for others' welfare
- self-sacrificeSurrendering for others' benefit
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- high-mindednessMoral elevation, principled integrity
Disposition toward doing good
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- givingTransferring to another
- liberalityGenerous spirit or giving
munificence · open-handedness · bountifulness · charitable · beneficence · donation · almsgiving · big-heartedness
Sharing another's emotions
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- warmthHeat you feel
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- caringShowing kind concern
sympathy · sensitivity · concern · understanding · humanity · gentleness · soft-heartedness · fellow feeling
Generous, noble spirit
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
leniency · tolerance · indulgence · forbearance · absolution · exoneration · broad-mindedness · letting go
altruism
Prioritizing others' wellbeing
- unselfishnessConcern for others' welfare
- self-sacrificeSurrendering for others' benefit
- nobilityTitled ruling class
benevolence
Disposition toward doing good
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- givingTransferring to another
liberality · munificence · open-handedness · bountifulness · charitable · beneficence · donation · almsgiving · big-heartedness · free-handedness
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- warmthHeat you feel
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
caring · sympathy · sensitivity · concern · understanding · humanity · gentleness · soft-heartedness · fellow feeling · kind-heartedness
magnanimity
Generous, noble spirit
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
mercy · leniency · tolerance · indulgence · forbearance · absolution · exoneration · broad-mindedness · letting go · rising above
- Heart compoundswarmhearted, coldhearted, kindhearted, wholehearted, halfhearted
largeheartednessstinginess
Excessive reluctance to spend
miserliness · tightfistedness · niggardliness · parsimony · cheapness
largeheartednesscoldheartedness
Utter lack of empathy
hardheartedness · heartlessness · cruelty · callousness · mercilessness
largeheartednessmeanness
Spiteful, unkind disposition
pettiness · small-mindedness · smallness · narrow-mindedness · littleness
big-hearted, largeness, largehearted, bigheartedness, large-hearted