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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Benignity \Be*nig"ni*ty\, n. [OE. benignite, F. b['e]nignit['e],
     OF. b['e]nignet['e], fr. L. benignitas. See {Benign}.]
     1. The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness;
        graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." --Sir W. Scott.
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     2. Mildness; gentleness.
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              The benignity or inclemency of the season.
                                                    --Spectator.
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     3. Salubrity; wholesome quality. --Wiseman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  benignity
       n 1: the quality of being kind and gentle [syn: {benignancy}, {graciousness}]
            [ant: {malignity}, {malignity}]
       2: a kind act [syn: {kindness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "benignity":
     accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness,
     affability, affectionateness, agreeableness, amiability,
     auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit,
     benevolence, benignancy, blessing, brightness, brotherhood,
     cheerfulness, cheeriness, class, cogency, compassion, complaisance,
     compliance, courtesy, decency, desert, excellence, expedience,
     fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling,
     fineness, first-rateness, fortunateness, fraternal feeling,
     generousness, good auspices, good deed, good offices, good omen,
     good turn, goodliness, goodness, goodness of heart, grace,
     graciosity, graciousness, harmlessness, healthiness, heart of gold,
     helpfulness, humaneness, humanity, hurtlessness, innocence,
     innocuousness, inoffensiveness, kind deed, kind offices,
     kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly act, kindly disposition,
     kindness, labor of love, loving kindness, luckiness, mercy, merit,
     mitzvah, niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, pleasantness,
     profitableness, propitiousness, prosperousness, quality,
     rewardingness, service, skillfulness, softheartedness,
     soul of kindness, soundness, superiority, sympathy,
     tenderheartedness, turn, uninjuriousness, unobnoxiousness,
     usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, warmheartedness,
     warmth, warmth of heart, wholeness, worth
  
  

















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