kindness
KYND-nuhs · noun
Middle EnglishEnglish
Origin
Kindness comes from Middle English kyndenesse, formed from kind plus the suffix -ness.
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Journey
The word has stayed close to its building blocks: kind plus -ness, the state or quality of being kind.
Related words
It shares its root directly with the word kind, from which it was built.
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