Benevolence is the noun for a kind and generous heart: you wish people well, and you are ready to give care, time, or money, not because you must, but because you want good for them. It is a rather careful, bookish word. A speaker might praise someone’s benevolence; a newspaper might thank a donor’s benevolence. It is stronger than a quick “nice”: it names a lasting wish to do good. Though actually, people also stretch it a little — a small kindness can be called benevolence in formal thanks. And in much older English history, a “benevolence” was a payment a king asked for and named a gift, which was not always freely given; that use is finished now. In ordinary English today, keep the kind-and-generous sense. You show benevolence, act out of benevolence, or remember someone’s benevolence.