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Noun: graciousness  grey-shus-nus
  1. Excellence of manners or social conduct
    "Her graciousness as a host made every guest feel welcome"
     
  2. The quality of being kind and gentle
    "The nurse's graciousness put the nervous patients at ease";
    - benignity, benignancy

See also: benign, benignant

Type of: courtesy, good, good manners, goodness

Antonym: ungraciousness