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Gentleness is moderation with respect to anger. But it must be noted that we have no recognized name for the mean, and scarcely any recognized names for the extremes. And so the term gentleness, which properly denotes an inclination towards deficiency in anger (for which also we have no recognized name), is applied to the mean.
The excess may be called wrathfulness; for the emotion concerned is wrath or anger, though the things that cause it are many and various.