Goodwill vs Humanity - What's the difference?
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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.
Mankind; human beings as a group.
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The quality of being benevolent.
Humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
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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
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* ill willSee also
* bona fides ----humanity
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(-)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.}}
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; […].}}
- 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 !”