mildness

mildness
n
1. gentleness, tenderness, softness; amiability, affability, geniality, cordiality, graciousness, kindheartedness, benignity, benignancy, mansue-tude, kindliness, warmth, milk of human kindness, sweetness; forbearance, patience, toleration, leniency, lenity, clemency, humaneness, compassion; indulgence, humoring, compliance, complaisance, obligingness, agreeableness; moderation, moderateness, steadiness, evenness, unexcessiveness; meekness, tameness, peaceableness, quietness, calmness, serenity, tranquillity, calm; docility, tractability, yieldingness, flexibility.
2. blandness, insipidness, flatness, vapidity, inanity, jejuneness, tastelessness, flavorlessness, weakness, wishy-washiness.

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