generosity Copy link • generosity: bĕnignĭtas: a g. beyond one's means, b. major quam facultates, Cic. Off. 1, 14, 42; where, as elsewhere, Cic. uses benignitas, liberalitas, beneficentia, as syn. See also, kindness, liberality.
GENEROSITY Copy link • GENEROSITYIn sentiments, spirit, etc., animus ingenuus: mens liberalis: ingenium liberale: generosus spiritus: ingenuitas: liberalitas. Liberality in giving, liberalitas (gives as much as a liberal-minded man thinks suitable to his own rank or the receiver’s merits, without nice mercantile calculation): benignitas (gives largely from kindness of temper, that does not wish to enjoy anything to the exclusion of others): munificentia (gives rather too much than too little, from the pleasure of making people happy and causing an agreeable surprise; Döderlein): beneficentia (habit of doing good, especially by giving generously): largitas (with reference to the large amount given; hence, also, of a particular gift, largitas tui muneris, Cic.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) liberalitas ac benignitas. Too great generosity, nimia largitas; effusio (toward anybody, in aliquem; also in plur., Cic., Off., 2, 16, 56). Splendid generosity, magnificentia liberalitatis (Cic.). Generosity toward anybody, liberalitas in aliquem: ☞ largitio is the spurious generosity of the largitor, who gives from the selfish motive of purchasing honors, etc.