Englishgentleness
noun
Jack treated these outbursts with firmness as well as gentleness:
kindness, kindliness, tenderness, benignity, humaneness, humanity;
leniency, mercy, clemency, forgiveness, forbearance;
sympathy, considerateness, consideration, understanding, compassion, benevolence, kind-heartedness, tender-heartedness, good nature, love;
mildness, softness, quietness, shyness, demureness, modesty, humility, stillness, tranquility, peacefulness, peaceableness, placidness, serenity, repose, reverence, meekness, docility.
▷antonyms unkindness; brutality.