"kindness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkaɪndnɪs/ Audio: en-us-kindness.ogg [US] Forms: kindness [singular], kindnesses [plural]
Etymology: kind + -ness Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|kind|ness}} kind + -ness Head templates: {{noun|2=kindnesses}} [POS TABLE]
  1. The quality of being kind. When you have kindness, you do many kind things.
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  2. Kind things people do. When you help people you are showing kindness.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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