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Meaning goodness meaning

What does goodness mean?

Definitions in simple English

goodness Noun

— Goodness is the quality of being good. He was known in the community for his goodness towards others. As such, many in the community were saddened the day he passed away. — Goodness is the good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something. Despite the goodness of exercising, John typically does not have time for it.

goodness

— noun (= good) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful weigh the good against the bad among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization — noun (= good) moral excellence or admirableness there is much good to be found in people

Synonyms goodness synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as goodness?

goodness English » English

virtue excellence good kindness merit righteousness beauty integrity worth rectitude pleasantness niceness benignity benevolence uprightness right purity probity pre-eminence morality generosity benefit value prosperity nobility moral sense meritoriousness improvement humaneness great contributions good deeds genius excellency eminence conscience benignancy auspiciousness amiability well welfare virtuousness virtuous conduct usefulness truth sustenance superior beauty sky good quality progress predominance

Topics goodness topics

What do people use goodness to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior

Good, moral

What words refer to the quality of being good?

goodness morality holiness purity righteousness sanctification virtue

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried

What do people say when they don't need to worry anymore?

Thank God! Thank goodness! What a relief!

Examples goodness examples

How do I use goodness in a sentence?

Simple sentences

For goodness sake.

Thank goodness you're here.

For goodness' sake, please be nice to him.

Does goodness charm more than beauty?

Goodness is abstract, a kind act is concrete.

My goodness! I have lost the car keys.

Goodness does more than violence.

Oh my goodness!

For goodness' sake, don't say that!

Tom did it out of the goodness of his heart.

My goodness, what's going on here?

Goodness knows what it was.

She came up from goodness knows where.

My mother says Japanese kids aren't naughty, but they live very far away, so Santa Claus doesn't bring them gifts. Thank goodness I was born in Spain.

Thank goodness that's over.

My goodness, how embarrassing.

Movie subtitles

Thank goodness I found you.

My goodness, yes.

Well, goodness me, you do look smart!

Oh, my goodness!

Oh, goodness.

Mine God, thou art merciful and a great goodness.

Thank goodness.

Goodness, what's wrong, Professor?

Goodness, what are you doing?

So he got three months for his goodness of heart, what?

Thank goodness I don't have to go to one of those dreadful dinners tonight.

All right, you win, but for goodness' sake, hurry.

Well, thank goodness that's over.

For goodness sake, be reasonable.

Oh, thank goodness you're here.

For goodness sake, save yourself! Soldiers!

For goodness, Alviano.

But, for goodness, do you forget. I considered everything.

Oh, goodness, collect yourself!

My goodness. I don't know what I'm going to do with you.

Thank goodness it's not in my nature to hold out anything on a pal.

Goodness, what's happening?

Goodness, you even find them in the jungle.

Well, for goodness' sake!

But if I were you, boys, I'd go and buy some real, honest to goodness, man-eaters. Killers!

Yes, thank goodness.

Oh, my goodness, uh, Mr. Plimpton, Senior.

Thank goodness he's gone.

Your goodness of heart is more than enough for me.

And for goodness' sake, do be careful.

Thank goodness that's settled.

Oh, my goodness.

It's all right with me. My goodness, I just thought..

Goodness me, this will never do.

Their patience, loyalty, goodness.

Goodness.

News and current affairs

How to do this is left up to the new leaders, who are often credited with goodness and powers of persuasion they never had and never will have.

This is not so much a criticism of the private sector; after all, drug companies are not in business out of the goodness of their hearts, and there is no money in preventing or curing the diseases of the poor.

Technocracy was Keynes's faith: skilled experts designing and fine-tuning institutions out of the goodness of their hearts to make possible general prosperity -- as Keynes, indeed, did at Bretton Woods where the World Bank and IMF were created.

Is Goodness Natural?

It is hard to imagine that anyone thinks of goodness as a problem, but Charles Darwin did.

The little worker bees that sacrificed themselves to protect their hives - the ultimate example of animal goodness - kept Darwin up at night.

Darwin wasn't the only scientist who was fascinated with the question of the evolution of goodness.

Huxley argued that all goodness could be traced to blood kinship, while Kropotkin argued that goodness and blood kinship were completely divorced from one another - one had nothing to do with the each other.

He began by defining three terms: the genetic relatedness between individuals (labeled r), the cost of an act of goodness (c), and the benefit that a recipient obtained when someone was nice to him or her (b).

If goodness is a problem, then the answer - or at the least part of the answer - can be found in evolutionary biology.

Then, thank goodness, the idea of a variable-geometry Union seemed to lose urgency when Tony Blair came to power.

We may hope that its promise of beauty, its challenge of truth, its redefinition of goodness, its unpredictable playfulness will be difficult to abandon even in uncertain and dangerous times.

But the world has changed, and many no longer view America's global role as an expression of its unique innocence and goodness.

From the ethical point of view, consumption is a means to goodness, and the market system is the most efficient engine for lifting people out of poverty: it is doing so at a prodigious rate in China and India.

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