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US
/ˈɡʊdnəs, ˈɡʊdnɪs/
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[ UK /ɡˈʊdnəs/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈʊdnəs/ ]
NOUN
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that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization
weigh the good against the bad -
moral excellence or admirableness
there is much good to be found in people
How To Use goodness In A Sentence
- Some people, thank goodness, take a good deal of pride and pleasure in achieving and maintaining a perfect filing system.
- French presses don't do this, so you get full-strength coffee flavor goodness without the bitterness that makes you want cream and sugar. What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping?
- Goodness of fit was assessed by diagnostic plots and the statistical significance of the Pearson chi-square of the fitted model.
- And when they espied the dukes daughter, that was a full fair woman, then by their false covin they made debate betwixt themself, and the duke of his goodness would have departed them, and there they slew him and his eldest son. Chapter XV. The Thirteenth Book. How Sir Galahad Fought with the Knights of the Castle, and Destroyed the Wicked Custom
- Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
- And I wouldn't mind even more rubber :- But yes, thank goodness it is not too coconutty. Profumum Volo AZ 686: Perfume Review
- Brown, a captivating and mysterious Midwesterner whose intimate slices of life are as heart-achingly beautiful as she is, will begrudgingly let listeners step into her secret hiding place filled with honest-to-goodness words and music about the human condition. Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad
- The symphonious pairing of syrupy goodness and buttery richness. Chez Pazienza: Rich Lowry: The William F. Buckley of F**k Talk
- OH OH OH, one last thing: yes, I got the birthday package and it was filled with graphic novelly goodness that I didn't have and we are now fighting over the contents as to who gets to read which ones first EVEN THOUGH it's my birthday present. Greetings from the land of sunshine and wagging tails
- But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
