Synonyms for good will
good will

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1. good will

   Friendship is a deep, quiet, enduring affection, founded upon mutual respect and esteem. Friendship is always mutual; there may be unreciprocated affection or attachment, unrequited love, or even unrecognized and unappreciated devotion, but never unreciprocated or unrequited friendship; one may have friendly feelings toward an enemy, but while there is hostility or coldness on one side there can not be friendship between the two. Friendliness is a quality of friendly feeling, without the deep and settled attachment implied in the state of friendship. Comity is mutual kindly courtesy, with care of each other's right, and amity a friendly feeling and relation, not necessarily implying special friendliness; as, the comity of nations, or amity between neighboring countries. Affection may be purely natural; friendship is a growth. Friendship is more intellectual and less emotional than love; it is easier to give reasons for friendship than for love; friendship is more calm and quiet, love more fervent; love often rises to intensest passion; we can not speak of the passion of friendship. Friendship implies some degree of equality, while love does not; we can speak of man's love toward God, not of his friendship for God. (There is more latitude in the use of the concrete noun friend; Abraham was called "the friend of God;" Christ was called "the friend of sinners.") Compare ACQUAINTANCE; LOVE.

   See synonyms for BATTLE; ENMITY; FEUD; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   affection, amity, attachment, comity, consideration, devotion, esteem, esteem, favor, friendliness, friendship, love, regard

   Preposition:
   The friendship of one person for or toward another, or the friendship between them.

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1. grace, good will, goodwillnoun

   a disposition to kindness and compassion

   "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

2. good will, goodwillnoun

   (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)

   Synonyms:
   grace, goodwill

3. good will, goodwillnoun

   the friendly hope that something will succeed

   Synonyms:
   grace, goodwill

Matched Categories

1. • Accounting
   • Friendliness
   • Good Nature
   • Intangible Asset

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1. good will

   Synonyms:
   benevolence, kindness, GOOD-NATURE

2. good will

   Synonyms:
   earnestness, heartiness, ardor, zeal

3. good will

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) custom (of an established place of business), patronage

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1. Interior Minister Milan Chovanec:

   The seven-day deadline, which the Iraqi Christians got along with their passports, is meant for them to be able to arrange the return home, this time cannot be used to break laws or to move to another Schengen country. I asked the Czech police to use all legal means so that these people, who abused the good will of the Czech Republic and her citizens, are returned to Iraq.

2. Joyce Duco:

   If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and know and believe some good will come from it. . . . All of us have seen good come out of disaster . . . the 'blessing in disguise.' When you expect good to come from negativity, it will. What you think about, you bring about.

3. William O. Douglas:

   The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

4. Abhi Raynott:

   When you realize needing nothing attracts everything. You don't have to be perfect. You just need to be good. Good for yourself. Good for others. Well, for life. Do good and good will come to you. See the good and the good we will be in everything you look at. Beauty is in the magic of the soul, in the purity and sincerity of the heart. Everything else is an illusion.

5. Hussein Al-Khunaizi:

   Good will and ill will are just two sides of the same card...