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Bounty vs Charitableness - What's the difference?

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Bounty is a related term of charitableness.


As nouns the difference between bounty and charitableness

is that bounty is generosity while charitableness is (uncountable) the quality of being charitable.

bounty

English

Noun

(bounties)
  • generosity
  • something given liberally
  • A reward for some specific act, especially one given by a government or authority
  • (nautical) formerly, money paid to volunteers for serving in the British navy in time of war

    • Derived terms

    * bounty hunter

    charitableness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • * 1840 The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries
  • *:The reader has seen, that my mother, notwithstanding her charitableness to the poor maid-servant, was a woman of strict morals.
  • (rare, countable) A particular kind or instance of this quality.
  • * 1904 , Richard Pryce, The Successor: a novel , page 232:
    • "It is a tradition. We must not be too much down on people who have been denied our own advantages." She spoke with an air of mild remonstrance. Vague charitablenesses were in her manner, and gentle expostulations.
  • * 1930 , David Snedden, School educations: sociological sources of values , page 70:
  • * 1947 , in The New Era in Home and School , volume 28, page 66:
    • But when the service of truth and the public good command, there are certain scruples which are immoral and certain charitablenesses which are dangerous.