beneficence
C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
The doing of good; active kindness and charity.
The hospital wing stood as a monument to the industrialist's beneficence.
Medicine noun
The ethical principle of acting for the benefit and wellbeing of the patient.
Balancing beneficence with respect for autonomy is central to any consent discussion.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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