Generosity vs Lavishness - What's the difference?
generosity | lavishness |
(uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money and/or time.
* 1963 : Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society
(uncountable) Acting generously.
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, title= (uncountable) The trait of being abundant, more than adequate.
(literally, uncountable) Good breeding; nobility of stock.
(countable) A generous act.
* 1873 : Reverend M. C. Tyler, Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Sage College of the Cornell University
The state or characteristic of being lavish.
As nouns the difference between generosity and lavishness
is that generosity is (uncountable) the trait of being willing to donate money and/or time while lavishness is the state or characteristic of being lavish.generosity
English
Noun
- We have mentioned generosity as an outstanding virtue required in Sioux life.
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- May the generosities of the founders of these halls, be rewarded by the fair and holy characters which shall be here formed.
Synonyms
* liberality * nobilityAntonyms
* stinginesslavishness
English
Noun
(en-noun)- No one could question the lavishness of his parties; good taste was a different matter.