nobleness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nobility grandeur magnanimousness gentry majesty eminence blood quality peerage noblesse birth rank distinction honor elite
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Antonyms

commons common community badness meanness error
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Hypernyms

honorableness honourableness

Hyponyms

idealism high-mindedness noble-mindedness sublimity

Examples

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather

Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own. James Russell Lowell

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness. Charles Kingsley

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. Douglas Adams

In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie. Thomas Carlyle

Nobleness is not noble ancestry. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

nobleite nobleman noblemanly nobleperson Nobles Nobles County