Liberality vs Charitableness - What's the difference?
liberality | charitableness | Related terms |
The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.
A gift; a gratuity.
(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:
* 1930 , David Snedden, School educations: sociological sources of values , page 70:
* 1947 , in The New Era in Home and School , volume 28, page 66:
Liberality is a related term of charitableness.
As nouns the difference between liberality and charitableness
is that liberality is the property of being liberal; generosity; charity while charitableness is (uncountable) the quality of being charitable.liberality
English
Noun
(en-noun)- That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. — Denham.
- A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities .
charitableness
English
Noun
(en-noun)- "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.
- But when the service of truth and the public good command, there are certain scruples which are immoral and certain charitablenesses which are dangerous.