liberality means the property of being liberal; generosity; charity. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 78 out of 100.
liberality is pronounced /ˌlɪbəˈɹælɪti/.
Why “liberality” is a great word
LIBERALITY — [Noun] The quality of being generous in giving; open-handedness or bounty. From Middle English liberalite, from Old French liberalité, from Latin līberālitās ("generosity, noble kindness"), from līberālis ("befitting a free person, generous"). Unlike parsimony, which contracts the world into a ledger of deficits, or munificence, which implies a grand and often performative scale, liberality is the quiet, steady current of open-handedness in ordinary life. It is the neighbor who shares the first ripe tomatoes without fanfare, the book lent with no demand for its return, and the patient loan of time to a struggling stranger—a modest but persistent defiance of the arithmetic of scarcity, proving the heart too can circulate its wealth.
noun
- The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.“That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.”
- A gift; a gratuity.“A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.”
- Candor.
- Impartiality.