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largesse noun [ lɑːˈ(d)ʒɛs ]

• generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others.
• "presumably public money is not dispensed with such largesse to anyone else"
Similar: generosity, liberality, munificence, bounty, bountifulness, beneficence, benefaction, altruism, charity, philanthropy, magnanimity, benevolence, charitableness, open-handedness, kindness, big-heartedness, great-heartedness, lavishness, free-handedness, unselfishness, selflessness, self-sacrifice, self-denial, almsgiving,
Opposite: meanness, miserliness,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French, from Latin largus ‘copious’.


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