mildness

noun

Definition of mildnessnext
1
as in balminess

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2
as in silence

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3
as in gentleness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mildness
  1. silence
  2. gentleness
  3. warmth
  4. comity
  5. tenderness
  6. meekness
  7. harmony
  8. goodness
Noun
  • An eerie soundscape coats one’s ears throughout, rarely allowing for an instant of complete silence.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Then, his remains were taken to the state capital in Atlanta, where he was honored in a moment of silence at the Capitol before a service at the Carter Center.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of silence
Noun
  • In this coming era—during which fear, corruption, and avarice will stand in prominence—gentleness, morality, and reason must be cherished in whatever form they can be found.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The thought of all that genius and gentleness going to waste was more than Morton could bear.
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of gentleness
Noun
  • But the tease of warmth will only make the extreme cold that follows feel more intense.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Winds from the south resume and bring back the warmth, and a slight chance of showers.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of warmth
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  • Because the comity—to call it by its correct name, the love—in that office, and by extension, in this little town, did not seem worth sacrificing to even so dire a truth.
    Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Alienated Hispanic Angelenos abandoned the team for decades, until Valenzuela became a source of comity.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of comity
Noun
  • Symptoms include bruising, swelling, tenderness, and pain.
    Laura Schober, Health, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There’s tenderness also in Bob’s visits to his trailblazing hero Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), by 1961 hospitalized with Huntington’s disease and nonverbal.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of tenderness
Noun
  • Most disconcerting is the meekness of Washington’s supposedly stalwart European allies.
    Raphael Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2014
  • But to see Bass as a kumbaya leader — or to mistake her softness for meekness — is to fundamentally misunderstand her.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
Definition of meekness
Noun
  • With their distinctive three-part harmonies, Peter, Paul and Mary — with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers — became one of the biggest and most commercially successful acts to emerge out of the Greenwich Village folk scene.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
  • These wellness journeys support a wide range of wellness goals like detoxification, relaxation, healthy weight loss, longevity, nutrition and fitness, emotional harmony, and even adventure.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of harmony
Noun
  • Thank goodness the fight is at night or one of them might be put off by a glint of sunlight like receiver CeeDee Lamb.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Words cannot express how good my skin looked, oh my goodness.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of goodness
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