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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets);
[syn: good will, goodwill]

2. the friendly hope that something will succeed;
[syn: good will, goodwill]

3. a disposition to kindness and compassion;
- Example: "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished"
[syn: grace, good will, goodwill]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

goodwill n 1: (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) [syn: good will, goodwill] 2: the friendly hope that something will succeed [syn: good will, goodwill] 3: a disposition to kindness and compassion; "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished" [syn: grace, good will, goodwill]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

108 Moby Thesaurus words for "goodwill": BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, abetment, acquiescence, advocacy, aegis, agreeableness, alacrity, altruism, amenability, amity, an in, ardor, auspices, backing, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bigheartedness, brotherly love, care, caritas, championship, charitableness, charity, cheerful consent, comity, compliance, consent, cooperativeness, countenance, custom, dispatch, do-goodism, docility, eagerness, encouragement, enthusiasm, expedition, favor, favorable disposition, favorable regard, favorableness, fellow feeling, flower power, forwardness, fosterage, friendliness, friendly relations, friendship, gameness, generosity, giving, good graces, good name, good terms, good understanding, grace, greatheartedness, guidance, harmony, helpfulness, humanitarianism, interest, kindliness, kindness, largeheartedness, love, love of mankind, mutual regard, patronage, philanthropism, philanthropy, pliability, pliancy, promptitude, promptness, rapport, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, regard, repute, respect, responsiveness, right mood, seconding, sponsorship, sympathy, tolerance, tractability, trade, tutelage, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, utilitarianism, welfarism, well-disposedness, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, zeal, zealousness