Definition for Lenity:

• The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.

Synonyms for Lenity:

• n.

  •
  • accept.
  •charity (noun)
  • amity,
  • attachment,
  • affection,
  • agape,
  • fellow feeling,
  • bounty,
  • benignity,
  • bountifulness.
  •clemency (noun)
  • Equitableness,
  • fairness,
  • moderation,
  • gentleness.
  •compassion (noun)
  • condolence,
  • consideration,
  • commiseration,
  • compunction,
  • yearning,
  • sorrow,
  • heart,
  • softness.
  •consolation (noun)
  • help,
  • solace,
  • alleviation,
  • assuagement,
  • encouragement,
  • support,
  • ease,
  • succor,
  • easement,
  • comfort,
  • cheer.
  •forgiveness (noun)
  • overlooking,
  • amnesty,
  • dispensation,
  • remission,
  • purgation,
  • absolution,
  • justification,
  • indemnity,
  • remittal,
  • impunity,
  • condonation,
  • quittance,
  • acquittal,
  • exoneration,
  • vindication,
  • exculpation,
  • clemency,
  • respite,
  • immunity,
  • extenuation,
  • palliation.
  •grace (noun)
  • compassionatenesses.
  •pity (noun)
  • Condolement.
  •quarter (noun)
  • quarter.
  •tolerance (noun)
  • liberalisms.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tolerance.

Antonyms for Lenity:

• n.

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

Lenity Sentence Examples:

• If he haue power, Then vale your Ignorance: If none, awake Your dangerous Lenity: If you are Learn'd, Be not as common Fooles; if you are not, Let them haue Cushions by you.

• I was treated with consideration and lenity.

Homophones for Lenity:

• lenient, loment, lay into, lamented, limited audit, lemon mint, lean-to, lamnidae, lent, land, limeade, lint, Luna Moth, lunette, landau, linnet, lomatia, lowland, lined, lineament, limonite, lam into, limited, lanate, lament, liniment, lunate, limanda, lind, lionet, lentia, lintwhite, landed, laminate, lemonade, laniidae, lone hand, luanda, line duty, lie in wait, lunt, lemon-wood, lamedh, lend, lindy, limit, lento, lunda, lemonwood, lund.