douceur
2 synonyms and 1 antonym for douceur, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A pleasant, gentle and agreeable way of behaving.
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Borrowed from French douceur (“sweetness”), from Old French dolçor, dulcur, and so on, from Latin dulcōr + -em, from dulcis (“sweet”). It was naturalised in Middle English as douceoure, dousour, but from the 17th century onward was treated as a French loanword. It is a doublet of dulcour.
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