different between generosity vs benefaction

English

Etymology

From Middle French générosité, from Latin gener?sitas.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???n????s?ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???n????s?ti/
• Rhymes: -?s?ti
• Hyphenation: ge?ne?ros?i?ty

Noun

generosity (countable and uncountable, plural generosities)

1. (uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money, time or resources.
   • 1963: Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society

     We have mentioned generosity as an outstanding virtue required in Sioux life.
2. (countable) A generous act.
   • 1873: Reverend M. C. Tyler, Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Sage College of the Cornell University

     May the generosities of the founders of these halls, be rewarded by the fair and holy characters which shall be here formed […] .

3. (uncountable) The trait of being abundant, more than adequate.
4. (archaic, uncountable) Good breeding; nobility of stock.

Synonyms

• liberality
• (good breeding, noble stock): nobility

Antonyms

• stinginess

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin benefacti?nem, from benefacere (“to benefit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?n??fak?(?)n/

Noun

benefaction (countable and uncountable, plural benefactions)

1. An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 70:

     We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [transl. Wohlthat] to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.

2. An act of charity; almsgiving.

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