Synonyms for meekness
meek·ness

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1. meekness

   Synonyms:
   bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, humility, lowliness, modesty, submissiveness

   Antonyms:
   assurance, boldness, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sauciness

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1. meekness, submissionnoun

   the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness

   Synonyms:
   entry, submission, subduedness, compliance

2. meekness, subduednessnoun

   a disposition to be patient and long suffering

   Synonyms:
   dimness, submission, subduedness

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1. • Humility

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1. meeknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   humbleness, humility, lowliness, lowness, demureness, condescension, self-abasement, gentleness, modesty, submission, submissiveness, mildness

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1. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

   The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

2. Václav Havel:

   The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

3. Jimmy Townsend:

   Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

4. Author Unknown:

   Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

5. Vince Lombardi:

   Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.