NOUN (2)

1. doing good; feeling beneficent;

2. the quality of being kind or helpful or generous;

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Beneficence \Be*nef"i*cence\, n. [L. beneficentia, fr.
   beneficus: cf. F. b['e]n['e]ficence. See Benefice.]
   The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or
   charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
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         And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. --Cowper.
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   Syn: See Benevolence.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

beneficence
    n 1: doing good; feeling beneficent [ant: maleficence]
    2: the quality of being kind or helpful or generous [ant:
       balefulness, maleficence, mischief]