goodness

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    that which is good or valuable or useful
    moral excellence or admirableness

Word Origin

goodness (n.)
Old English godnes "goodness, virtue, kindliness;" see good (adj.) + -ness. In exclamations from 1610s as a term of emphasis, first recorded in for goodnesse sake, i.e. "as you trust in the divine goodness" (i.e., God).

Antonym

n.

badness

Example

1. White is associated with light goodness innocence purity and virginity .
2. Even those squirmy scenes were shot through with his goodness .
3. We need wisdom and guidance and love and joy and peace and patience and goodness and self-control .
4. Thank goodness my nightmare was not my reality .
5. Whenever we touch that core of goodness , we feel moved .

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