beneficence
(noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
beneficence
(noun) doing good; feeling beneficent
Source: WordNet® 3.1
beneficence (countable and uncountable, plural beneficences)
An act of philanthropy, a kind deed; an act which benefits someone else.
Good or charitable character or behavior.
• See goodness
• maleficence
Source: Wiktionary
Be*nef"i*cence, n. Etym: [L. beneficentia, fr. beneficus: cf. F. bénéficence. See Benefice.]
Definition: The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.
Syn.
– See Benevolence.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
