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goodness
[ good-nis ]
noun
- the state or quality of being good.
Antonyms: evil
- moral excellence; virtue.
- kindly feeling; kindness; generosity.
Synonyms: humanity, benignity, benevolence
- excellence of quality:
goodness of workmanship.
- the best part of anything; essential property; strength.
- a euphemism for God:
Thank goodness!
goodness
/ ˈɡʊdnɪs /
noun
- the state or quality of being good
- generosity; kindness
- moral excellence; piety; virtue
interjection
- a euphemism for God
goodness knows!
thank goodness!
Other Words From
- su·per·good·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- for the sake of
- god (goodness) knows
- honest to god (goodness)
- my god (goodness
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Thank goodness that we have this private-sector expertise that we want to shape into a global public good that gets to everybody on the planet.
Plato thought that before birth we resided in the world of “the Forms,” together with numbers, universals, and goodness itself.
We’re all bogged down and floundering, questioning our own goodness while we arch our eyebrows at our friends and argue over whose patch of muck is really solid ground.
We’re capable of great evil in some cases, but we’re also capable of great goodness.
So they don’t want to actually confront the United States Navy, for goodness sake.
But my goodness, even the air around Oxford University is studious.
All would attest to the manifest goodness that inspired the perfect nickname for the boy who would become a perfect cop.
That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.
Enforcement of U.S Code, Title VII, Chapter 25A “Export Standards for Grapes and Plums” remains fully funded, thank goodness.
In a country with a constitution that values secularism, religion is still the prime indicator of morality and goodness.
And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.
In truth, M. de Biancourt's goodness and prudence seemed much shaken by this tempest of human passions.
Goodness only knew what a falchion was, but there was the Griffin, and his history was an improvement upon the eternal Cat.
After all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.
One finds new friends;—and dear little girls; and—goodness knows what I shall find next.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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