Forgiving vs Benign - What's the difference?
forgiving | benign | Related terms |
An act of forgiveness.
* 1996 , Bernard P. Dauenhauer, Citizenship in a Fragile World (page 58)
Kind; gentle; mild.
* (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable
* not harmful to the environment: [in combination] an ozone-benign refrigerant.
(medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.
Forgiving is a related term of benign.
As adjectives the difference between forgiving and benign
is that forgiving is inclined to forgive while benign is kind; gentle; mild.As a verb forgiving
is .As a noun forgiving
is an act of forgiveness.forgiving
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(en noun)- And I receive your forgiveness only from you. A group's promises and forgivings are nothing more than the sum of its individual members' promises and forgivings.