Qualities
Synonyms for gentleness
The synonym for gentleness recorded in this bank is softness, in the sense "acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for gentleness
- softnessnoun, in the sense "acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for gentleness.
acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered
His fingers have learned gentleness.
The true synonym
softness
Same sentence, swapped: His fingers have learned softness.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot gentleness is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- rudeness
- mien
- neutrality
Where gentleness turns up in the game
gentleness is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where gentleness is the trap
- pitchnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is rake, in the sense "degree of deviation from a horizontal plane", and gentleness is on the board beside it.
Play gentleness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gentleness reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gentleness carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.