gentleness

thumb|19th century painting of a gentleman displaying his courtesy Gentleness is a personal quality which can be part of one's character. It consists of kindness, consideration, and amiability.

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thumb|19th century painting of a gentleman displaying his courtesy Gentleness is a personal quality which can be part of one's character. It consists of kindness, consideration, and amiability.

Aristotle used it in a technical sense as the virtue that strikes the mean with regard to anger: being too quick to anger is a vice, but so is being detached in a situation where anger is appropriate; justified and properly focused anger is named mildness or gentleness.