Synonyms for Contrition:

• n.

  •attrition (noun)
  • attrition.
  •compunction (noun)
  • mis giving,
  • stab conscience,
  • mis-giving.
  •contrition (noun)
  • contriteness.
  •guilt (noun)
  • criminalities,
  • malefactions,
  • Malefaction,
  • blameworthiness,
  • self-reproach,
  • criminality,
  • Peccability,
  • sinfulness,
  • self-condemnation,
  • answerability.
  •humility (noun)
  • humility,
  • modesty,
  • unpretentiousness,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • selflessness,
  • plainness,
  • unassumingness,
  • mildness,
  • submissiveness,
  • homeliness,
  • sheepishness,
  • meekness,
  • humbleness.
  •penance (noun)
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • expiations,
  • selfflagellation,
  • self-flagellations,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • self flagellations,
  • self flagellation,
  • selfflagellations.
  •penitence (noun)
  • study at repentance,
  • self-castigation.
  •regret (noun)
  • grief,
  • lamentation,
  • sorrow,
  • heartache,
  • qualm.
  •remorse (noun)
  • pangs conscience,
  • re morses,
  • re-morses,
  • re morse,
  • re-morse.
  •repentance (noun)
  • sorrinesses.
  •shame (noun)
  • skeleton in cupboard,
  • self-reproof,
  • Pudency,
  • loss of face,
  • skeleton in the cupboard,
  • stupefaction.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Penitency,
  • remorsefulness.
  •
  • confession.
  •Other relevant words:
  • excoriate,
  • friction,
  • breast-beating,
  • elbow grease,
  • penitently,
  • dejected,
  • wretched,
  • deplorable,
  • regrets,
  • scar,
  • shamefacedness,
  • grievous,
  • dolorous,
  • disappointment,
  • reparation,
  • amends,
  • sorry,
  • dingy,
  • Compunctious,
  • sorrowfulness,
  • ayenbite of inwit,
  • annoy,
  • conscience-stricken,
  • dull,
  • atonement,
  • doleful,
  • downcast,
  • choke,
  • rile,
  • erode,
  • rankle,
  • regretfulness,
  • funereal,
  • Irrepentance,
  • sad,
  • misgiving,
  • mortification,
  • humiliation,
  • desperate,
  • woe,
  • impenitence,
  • mournfulness,
  • scruple,
  • depressed,
  • second thoughts,
  • excoriation,
  • massage,
  • pathetic,
  • hesitation,
  • abject apology,
  • black,
  • Brokenness,
  • Regretting,
  • embarrassment,
  • distressing,
  • graze,
  • contrite,
  • wistfulness,
  • remorseful,
  • ruefulness,
  • rubbing,
  • punishment,
  • bother,
  • Limature,
  • discomfort,
  • Apologies,
  • concave,
  • incision,
  • scour,
  • Frication,
  • ruth,
  • guilty conscience,
  • malaise,
  • scrape,
  • cheerless,
  • prick,
  • unevenness,
  • Arrosion,
  • dreary,
  • mea culpa,
  • dismal,
  • self-punishment,
  • dolour,
  • self-mortification,
  • melancholy,
  • shamefulness,
  • anxiety,
  • detrition,
  • abrasion,
  • recusance,
  • pang,
  • low,
  • abrade,
  • excuse,
  • acknowledgment,
  • roughness,
  • bad conscience,
  • conscience,
  • suffering,
  • grave,
  • dark,
  • depressing,
  • repining,
  • bitterness,
  • drab,
  • spoil,
  • irritate,
  • rub,
  • erosion,
  • anguish,
  • scratch,
  • scraping,
  • grind,
  • forlorn,
  • rosin,
  • gloomy,
  • sadness,
  • apology,
  • Confrication,
  • shamefastness,
  • Affriction,
  • regretful.

Paraphrases for Contrition:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    remorse.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    repentance, regret.

Antonyms for Contrition:

• n.

  • regret
    indifference, happiness, hurtfulness, meanness.
  • Other antonyms:
    hardness, self-complacency, remorselessness, approval, stubbornness, obduracy, comfort, obstinacy, complacency, content, impenitence, self-congratulation.

Homophones for Contrition:

• contortion.