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. Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook:

   The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

2. John Dewey:

   Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

3. Donald Trump:

   I do believe in meetings, look, I believe that having a meeting with Chairman Kim was a good thing. I think having meetings with the President of China was a very good thing, I believe it's really good. And so having meetings with Russia, China, North Korea, I believe in North Korea. Nothing bad's going to come out of it, and maybe some good will come out. But I go in with low expectations, I'm not going in with high expectations. I don't, I don't really, I can't tell you what's going to happen, but I can tell you what I'll be asking for and we'll see if something comes of it.

4. Pastor Miles:

   There is a lot of support, not only from the Ukrainian community here in the Philadelphia area or generally in the country, but from many people of good will, look at a lot of efforts that were made by different countries to provide assistance to Ukraine, not only political, but financial, military — that really gives hope that Ukraine is not alone here. We do have a lot of friends.

5. Brad Sherman:

   It’s not news that Ilhan Omar would make outrageous and clearly false statements about America and Israel, what’s newsworthy is that she admits Hamas is guilty of ‘unthinkable atrocities.’ It’s time for all of Israel’s detractors to condemn Hamas. And it’s time for all those of good will to reject any moral equivalency between the U.S. and Israel on one hand, and Hamas and the Taliban on the other.