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generosity | munificent |

As a noun generosity

is (uncountable) the trait of being willing to donate money and/or time.

As an adjective munificent is

(of a person or group) very liberal in giving or bestowing.

generosity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money and/or time.
  • * 1963 : Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society
    • We have mentioned generosity as an outstanding virtue required in Sioux life.
  • (uncountable) Acting generously.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • (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
    • May the generosities of the founders of these halls, be rewarded by the fair and holy characters which shall be here formed.

    Synonyms

    * liberality * nobility

    Antonyms

    * stinginess

    munificent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
  • * 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
    • Tellson's Bank . . . was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
  • * 1974 April 8, " Politics: Milkmen Skimming Off More Cream," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
    • [M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S.
  • * 2008 March 20, , " Broad-Minded Museum," New York Review of Books (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
    • An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
  • Very generous; lavish.
  • * 1886 , , Jo's Boys , ch. 1:
    • On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
  • * 1914 , , A Daughter of the Dons , ch. 25:
    • It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift.
  • * 1969 April 11, " Business: Up, Up and Away with Wages," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
    • The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years.

    Synonyms

    * bounteous, generous, liberal

    Related terms

    * munificence