Crossword clues for helpfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Helpful \Help"ful\, a. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him!
--Shak.
-- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being helpful.
WordNet
n. the property of providing useful assistance
friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition [syn: kindliness]
Wikipedia
In social psychology, the everyday concept of helpfulness is the property of providing useful assistance; or friendliness evidenced by a kindly and helpful disposition.
For many years, social psychologists have been searching for answers to these questions:
- Why, and when, will people help?
- Who will help?
- What can be done to lessen indifference and increase helping?
Usage examples of "helpfulness".
The Regals showed by their helpfulness that they had her under close surveillance.
Barbara kept her face very straight but Henry knew her to be possessed of a sense of devilment, very much in evidence under that air of innocent helpfulness.
Helpfulness and cooperation were not singer characteristics but even she could remember being obliged to - and alternately infuriated by - Lanzecki's demands on her and on herself and Lars.
There was adoration in Anton's face, an expression of admiration and reverence mingled with those emotions of affectionate consideration and helpfulness that well-bred youth sometimes manifests toward the paltriness and fragility of age.