beneficence
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
doing good; feeling beneficent
Types & categories
- benevolence hypernym
Related & opposite
- maleficence antonym
- beneficent derivation
Sense 2 noun
the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
Types & categories
- good hypernym
- grace of God hyponym
Related & opposite
- balefulness antonym
- beneficent attribute
- beneficent derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | maleficence |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | beneficent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | benevolence |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | balefulness |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | beneficent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | beneficent |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | good |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | grace of God |