Word Meanings - MILDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MILDNESS)

• Amenity
• Pleasantness
• mildness
• blandness
• graciousness
• gentility
• compliableness
• courtesy
• obligingness
• mansuetude
• Docility
• gentleness
• tameness
• Moderation
• Temperance
• sobriety
• frugality
• calmness
• sedateness
• coolness
• deliberateness

Related words: (words related to MILDNESS)

• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• DOCILITY
  1. teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. 2. Willingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith.
• MILDNESS
  The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• COOLNESS
  1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession.
• GENTILITY
  belong to the same clan, also, heathenism: cf. F. gentilité 1. Good extraction; dignity of birth. Macaulay. He . . . mines my gentility with my education. Shak. 2. The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect,
• MODERATION
  The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. (more info) 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing
• AMENITY
  The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness. A sweetness and amenity of temper. Buckle. This climate has not seduced by its amenities.
• CALMNESS
  The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett. Syn. -- Quietness; quietude; stillness; tranquillity; serenity; repose;
• FRUGALITY
  1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the
• DELIBERATENESS
  The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.
• GENTLENESS
  The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
• TEMPERANCE
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation,
• COURTESY
  corteisie, courtesie, OF. curteisie, cortoisie, OF. curteisie, 1. Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts
• MANSUETUDE
  Tameness; gentleness; mildness.
• GRACIOUSNESS
  Quality of being gracious.
• SOBRIETY
  1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness;
• TAMENESS
  The quality or state of being tame.
• INSOBRIETY
  Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• DISCOURTESY
  Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• ATTEMPERANCE
  Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
• INDOCILITY
  The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness. The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.
• IMMODERATION
  Want of moderation. Hallywell.