Kindness and Unkindness

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Kindness

Kindness noun - Sympathetic concern for the well-being of others.
Usage example: with touching kindness, the couple offered the stranded tourists a place to stay for the night
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Unkindness is an antonym for kindness.
Nearby Words: kind, kindly, kindliness

Unkindness

Unkindness noun - Lack of sympathy.
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Kindness is an antonym for unkindness in topics: brutality, severity, speech, asperity, cruelty.
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overt overt kindness overt unkindness
general general kindness general unkindness

Both words in one sentence

  • The Farmer and the Viper Still in the Fishman Island arc, a flashback gives us a variation, in that kindness isn't repaid with evil, but still with unkindness.
    Source: The Farmer and the Viper
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Unkindness and Kindness. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/kindness/unkindness
Kindness & Unkindness. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/kindness/unkindness>.
Unkindness or Kindness. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/kindness/unkindness.

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