generosity

Noun

1. The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time.
   • We have mentioned generosity as an outstanding virtue required in Sioux life. - 1963, Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society:
   • Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of...

   Synonyms: charity largesse liberality

   Antonyms: stinginess

2. A desire to give or share without expecting payment; charity; an eager willingness to demonstrate openness and empathy or to provide a charitable outlook on something; a desire to share either emotionally or in resources, time, etc.
3. A generous act.
   • May the generosities of the founders of these halls, be rewarded by the fair and holy characters which shall be here formed[…]. - 1873, Reverend M. C. Tyler, Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Sage...

   Synonyms: beau geste

4. The trait of being abundant, more than adequate.
5. Good breeding; nobility of stock.

   Synonyms: nobility