"mildness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-mildness.wav Forms: mildnesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English mildenesse, from Old English mildnes, mildness, equivalent to mild + -ness. Cognate with Old High German miltnissa (“compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|mildenesse}} Middle English mildenesse, {{inh|en|ang|mildnes}} Old English mildnes, {{suf|en|mild|ness}} mild + -ness, {{cog|goh|miltnissa|t=compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity}} Old High German miltnissa (“compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mildness (countable and uncountable, plural mildnesses)
  1. The quality of being mild; gentleness. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of being mild; gentleness): мекост (mekost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), благост (blagost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), умереност (umerenost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), Milde [feminine] (German), 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 (mildiþa) [feminine] (Gothic), lēnitās [feminine] (Latin), mildhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål)

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