Synonyms of lenity

lenity

noun

as in mercy

kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it

a social critic who argues that judicial lenity is chiefly to blame for the increased criminality that plagues us

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mercy
• mercifulness
• leniency
• clemency
• empathy
• forbearance
• compassion
• kindness
• lenience
• sympathy
• grace
• tenderness
• charity
• generosity
• goodness
• pity
• understanding
• quarter
• magnanimity
• affection
• gentleness
• benevolence
• humanitarianism
• kindliness
• love
• mildness
• meekness
• philanthropy
• goodwill
• softness
• nobility
• altruism
• humaneness
• favor
• devotion
• worship
• commiseration
• niceness
• care

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• vengeance
• revenge
• ruthlessness
• uncharitableness
• cruelty
• retribution
• mercilessness
• vindictiveness
• punishment
• retaliation
• barbarity
• violence
• pitilessness
• virulence
• savagery
• wantonness
• reprisal
• malice
• brutality
• savageness
• discipline
• sadism
• chastisement
• malignity
• requital
• hatred
• spite
• detestation
• truculence
• viciousness
• hostility
• hard-heartedness
• venom
• abhorrence
• meanness
• castigation
• scolding
• vitriol
• malevolence
• enmity
• malignancy
• atrocity
• execration
• jealousy
• loathing
• antagonism
• hate
• animosity
• spitefulness
• maliciousness
• spleen
• resentment
• antipathy
• abomination
• bitterness
• jaundice
• rancor
• grudge
• pique
• harshness
• invidiousness
• gall
• nastiness
• roughness
• bile
• hardness
• coarseness
• hatefulness
• cattiness

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• vengeance
• revenge
• ruthlessness
• uncharitableness
• cruelty
• retribution
• mercilessness
• vindictiveness
• punishment
• retaliation
• barbarity
• violence
• pitilessness
• virulence
• savagery
• wantonness
• reprisal
• malice
• brutality
• savageness
• discipline
• sadism
• chastisement
• malignity
• requital
• hatred
• spite
• detestation
• truculence
• viciousness
• hostility
• hard-heartedness
• venom
• abhorrence
• meanness
• castigation
• scolding
• vitriol
• malevolence
• enmity
• malignancy
• atrocity
• execration
• jealousy
• loathing
• antagonism
• hate
• animosity
• spitefulness
• maliciousness
• spleen
• resentment
• antipathy
• abomination
• bitterness
• jaundice
• rancor
• grudge
• pique
• harshness
• invidiousness
• gall
• nastiness
• roughness
• bile
• hardness
• coarseness
• hatefulness
• cattiness

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