Definition for Leniency:

• The quality of being lenient.

Synonyms for Leniency:

• n.

  •
  • charity.
  •
  • accept.
  •clemency (noun)
  • lifesavers,
  • softheartednesses,
  • caritases,
  • soft-heartednesses,
  • soft heartedness,
  • soft heartednesses,
  • sufferances.
  •forbearance (noun)
  • compassion,
  • kindness,
  • lenity.
  •forgiveness (noun)
  • clemency.
  •grace (noun)
  • compassionatenesses.
  •patience (noun)
  • long-sufferings,
  • sub-missions,
  • longsufferings,
  • even tempers,
  • non-resistances,
  • longanimities,
  • non resistance,
  • long suffering,
  • passivities,
  • non resistances,
  • nonresistances,
  • sub mission,
  • yieldings,
  • sub missions,
  • long sufferings,
  • sub-mission,
  • self control,
  • longsuffering.
  •pity (noun)
  • humaneness,
  • pity,
  • commiseration,
  • tenderness,
  • sympathy.
  •quarter (noun)
  • quarter.
  •tolerance (noun)
  • liberalisms.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • comeuppance,
  • pardon.
  •
  • payment.
  •
  • tolerance.
  •
  • judgment.
  •
  • correction.
  •
  • lesson.

Paraphrases for Leniency:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    indulgence.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    mercy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    mercy.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    clemency.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    clemency, complacency, forbearance, tolerance, laxity, forgiveness, complaisance, permissiveness, letup, acquiescence.

Antonyms for Leniency:

• n.

  • forbearance
    cruelty, intolerance, meanness.
  • Other antonyms:
    gall, castigation, wantonness, malignancy, abomination, violence, penalty, maliciousness, hatred, nastiness, mercilessness, rancor, enmity, jaundice, virulence, venom, scolding, uncharitableness, sternness, execration, chastisement, malice, bile, coarseness, punishment, harshness, pitilessness, loathing, vindictiveness, hardness, bitterness, hatefulness, jealousy, cattiness, roughness, justice, grudge, malevolence, truculence, antipathy, pique, abhorrence, vitriol, spite, detestation, rigor, ruthlessness, discipline, Implacability, malignity, invidiousness, hostility, hate, antagonism, spleen, severity, spitefulness.

Leniency Sentence Examples:

• As long as the life of a black man is not just as sacred as that of a white man, in every section of the Republic; as long as wrongs perpetrated upon him are treated with greater leniency than wrongs perpetrated upon white men, his status is not the same as that of the white man; and as long as it is not the same an injustice is done him, which he ought to resist; against which he ought to protest, and continue to protest.

• Neither removed her hat when dancing, a proceeding which many of the juniors and seniors present regarded with no leniency.

Homophones for Leniency:

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