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Goodwill vs Humanity - What's the difference?

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Goodwill is a related term of humanity.


As nouns the difference between goodwill and humanity

is that goodwill is a favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something while humanity is mankind; human beings as a group.

goodwill

English

Noun

  • A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.
  • (accounting) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand.
  • (business) A concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien.
  • Antonyms

    * ill will

    See also

    * bona fides ----

    humanity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Mankind; human beings as a group.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity , and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
  • The human condition or nature.
  • The quality of being benevolent.
  • Humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
  • Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities !”

    Synonyms

    * (benevolence) * See also

    Derived terms

    * humanitarian * humanitarianism