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lenience
[lee-nee-uhn-see, leen-yuhn-] 
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lenience
[lee-nee-uhn-see, leen-yuhn-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grace |
| Synonyms: | benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, caritas, charity, clemency, compassion, compassionateness, favor, forbearance, generosity, good will, goodness, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, leniency, lenity, love, mercifulness, mercy, pardon, quarter, reprieve, responsiveness, tenderness |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | no mercy |
| Main Entry: | forgiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon; end of blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, condonation, dispensation, exculpation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, lenience, lenity, mercy, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quarter, quittance, remission, remittal, reprieve, respite, vindication |
| Antonyms: | accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence |
| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
| Synonyms: | allowance, appeasement, attention, babying, coddling, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, favoring, fondling, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness, kindness, kowtowing, lenience, leniency, pampering, partiality, patience, permissiveness, petting, placating, pleasing, privilege, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, satisfaction, service, spoiling, toadying, tolerance, toleration, treating, understanding |
| Antonyms: | abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, benignancy, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, kindliness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | open-mindedness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, benevolence, broad-mindedness, charity, clemency, compassion, concession, endurance, forbearance, freedom, good will, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, license, magnanimity, mercifulness, mercy, patience, permission, permissiveness, sensitivity, sufferance, sympathy, toleration, understanding |
| Antonyms: | bias, disapproval, intolerance, narrow-mindedness, prejudice |
| Main Entry: | leniency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forbearance |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, kindness, lenience, lenity, mercy, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | charitableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tolerance |
| Synonyms: | charity, fairness, forbearance, lenience, leniency, lenity, patience, sympathy, toleration |
| Main Entry: | lenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tolerance |
| Synonyms: | altruism, benevolence, broad-mindedness, charitableness, charity, clemency, compassion, concession, endurance, forbearance, freedom, good will, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, lenience, leniency, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, license, magnanimity, mercifulness, mercy, patience, permission, permissiveness, sensitivity, sufferance, sympathy, toleration, understanding |
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