Synonyms for lenity
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Noun
1. Lenience — leniency, mercy, forgiveness
lenience, leniency, mildness, grace, humanity, mercy, tenderness, indulgence, softness, clemency, gentleness, forbearance, compassion
Definitions
- n. 1
leniency, mercy, forgiveness
Forms
- Plural
- lenities → leniences, leniencies, mildnesses, graces…
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Leniency or lenity denotes an easy-going avoidance of severity; these words are more general and less magisterial than clemency; we should speak of the leniency of a parent, the clemency of a conqueror.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- grace Everybody at the party was charmed with her grace.
- leniency My virtues are called kindness and leniency.
By length
- 5 letters
- grace1, mercy2
- 8 letters
- humanity4, softness2, clemency3, leniency3, mildness, lenience
- 10 letters
- compassion3, tenderness3, indulgence3, gentleness3
- 11 letters
- forbearance3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (mercy2 = 2 syllables).