" beneficences "

1: a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution;

  * e.g., " ... the town library stays open primarily through beneficences from concerned residents "

•  Synonyms : 

•  alms,

•  benefactions,

•  charities,

•  contributions,

•  donations,

•  philanthropies

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution;

  * e.g., " ... the town library stays open primarily through beneficences from concerned residents "

•  Synonyms : 

•  alms,

•  benefaction,

•  charity,

•  contribution,

•  donation,

•  philanthropy

•  Antonyms : 

•  barbarity,

•  barbarousness,

•  bestiality,

•  brutality,

•  brutishness,

•  callousness,

•  cold-bloodedness,

•  cruelty,

•  hard-heartedness,

•  heartlessness,

•  inhumanity,

•  savageness,

•  savagery,

•  unfeelingness,

•  unkindliness,

•  unkindness

2: sympathetic concern for the well-being of others;

  * e.g., " ... a religious leader whose beneficence is felt by all who meet him "

•  Synonyms : 

•  benevolence,

•  benignancy,

•  benignity,

•  compassionateness,

•  good-heartedness,

•  humaneness,

•  kindheartedness,

•  kindliness,

•  kindness,

•  softheartedness,

•  tenderheartedness,

•  tenderness,

•  warmheartedness

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)