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1) showing kindness and understanding (charitable)

2) too pleased with oneself and one's abilities and without kindness for others etc (smug)

3) to make (something) useless or unsatisfactory; to harm (a child's personality) by too much kindness or lack of discipline (spoil)

4) not showing kindness (unkind)

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Meaning:
affection

a kindly and Loving feeling

strong fondness

altruism

the quality of considering the well-being and happiness of others before yourself

unselfish concern

benevolence

the wish to do good (by giving money)

charity

clemency

mercy

forgiveness

compassion

a feeding for the sufferings or difficulties of others, causing a wish to help

tender feeling

complaisance

the readiness, willingness, to please

agreeableness

courtesy

(an instance of) courteous behaviour

good manners

culture

the expression of intellectual development (of arts, science etc) in society

breeding, education, sophistication

dispensation

the act of distributing

allocation of supply

favour

to ask a person to do something kind for one's benefit

approval, good opinion; help

generosity

the quality of being generous

spirit of giving

geniality

extreme niceness

extreme niceness

gentleness

intentional mildness

intentional mildness

goodness

the quality of being good

decency, excellence

indulgence

the state, act of having or doing what one wants

luxury; gratification

liberality

generosity; freedom from prejudice

generosity

pardon

(an instance of) forgiveness; an act of freeing a person from legal punishment

forgiveness

pity

a feeling of sorrow for the troubles, sufferings etc of another person

feeling of mercy toward another

service

(an act of) help or assistance to another or others; an organized system of work etc for the needs of the public

aid, help

sympathy

(the capacity for) feeling pity and sadness; a feeling of understanding or agreement

shared feeling

tenderness

kindness; affection

affection

virtue

(any particular kind of) goodness or excellence; the ability to produce a definite result; (an) advantage

honor, integrity

KINDNESS as in Wiktionary
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