Mildness

3 definitions found

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

  Mildness \Mild"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper;
     the mildness of the winter.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mildness
       n 1: good weather with comfortable temperatures [syn: {clemency}]
       2: mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
          [syn: {lenience}, {leniency}, {lenity}]

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

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "mildness":
     abnegation, abstinence, acceptance, affability, amiability,
     bonhomie, calm, calmness, clemency, clementness, compassion,
     conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, cordiality,
     deadness, dispassion, dovelikeness, easiness, easygoingness,
     evenness, flatness, flavorlessness, forbearance, forbearing,
     geniality, gentleness, golden mean, good disposition, good humor,
     good nature, good temper, goodnaturedness, goodtemperedness,
     happy medium, humaneness, humanity, humility, impartiality,
     inanity, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity,
     judiciousness, juste-milieu, lamblikeness, laxness, lenience,
     leniency, lenientness, lenity, lifelessness, meden agan, meekness,
     mercifulness, mercy, middle way, moderateness, moderation,
     moderationism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess,
     pacifism, patience, peaceableness, pity, prudence, quietness,
     repose, restraint, saplessness, savorlessness, self-abnegation,
     self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety,
     softness, stability, staleness, steadiness, sweetness, tameness,
     tastelessness, temperance, temperateness, tenderness, thinness,
     tolerance, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance,
     unextremeness, unsavoriness, vapidity, via media, weakness,
     wishy-washiness