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.

  •
  • charity,
  • mercifulness.
  •
  • charitableness,
  • tolerance,
  • toleration.
  •charity (noun)
  • benignity.
  •clemency (noun)
  • gentleness,
  • mildness,
  • moderation,
  • tolerance.
  •compassion (noun)
  • commiseration,
  • consideration,
  • softness,
  • yearning.
  •consolation (noun)
  • pity.
  •forgiveness (noun)
  • clemency,
  • dispensation.
  •lenity (noun)
  • altruism,
  • benefaction,
  • beneficence,
  • benevolence,
  • broad-mindedness,
  • charitableness,
  • charity,
  • clemency,
  • compassion,
  • compassionateness,
  • concession,
  • endurance,
  • favor,
  • forbearance,
  • freedom,
  • generosity,
  • good will,
  • goodness,
  • grace,
  • humanity,
  • indulgence,
  • kindliness,
  • kindness,
  • lenience,
  • leniency,
  • liberalism,
  • liberality,
  • liberalness,
  • license,
  • love,
  • magnanimity,
  • mercifulness,
  • mercy,
  • mildness,
  • pardon,
  • patience,
  • permission,
  • permissiveness,
  • quarter,
  • reprieve,
  • responsiveness,
  • sensitivity,
  • sufferance,
  • sympathy,
  • tenderness,
  • toleration,
  • understanding,
  • CARITAS.
  •mercy (noun)
  • blessing,
  • forgiveness,
  • ruth.
  •moderation (noun)
  • calmness,
  • constraint,
  • judiciousness,
  • quiet,
  • restraint,
  • sobriety.
  •quarter (noun)
  • quarter.
  •restraint (noun)
  • moderation.
  •temperance (noun)
  • moderation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mercifulness,
  • tolerance,
  • toleration.
  •
  • charitableness.
  •
  • charity.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abnegation,
  • abstinence,
  • acceptance,
  • allowance,
  • altruism,
  • beauty,
  • benefaction,
  • beneficence,
  • benefit,
  • benevolence,
  • benignity,
  • bleeding heart,
  • blessing,
  • bonhomie,
  • bowels,
  • broad-mindedness,
  • calm,
  • calmness,
  • charitableness,
  • charity,
  • charm,
  • clemency,
  • commiseration,
  • compassion,
  • compassionateness,
  • concession,
  • connivance,
  • conservatism,
  • consideration,
  • consolation,
  • constraint,
  • continence,
  • control,
  • cool,
  • dispassion,
  • dispensation,
  • elegance,
  • endurance,
  • evenness,
  • exemption,
  • favor,
  • forbearance,
  • forgiveness,
  • freedom,
  • generosity,
  • geniality,
  • gentleness,
  • gift,
  • good humor,
  • good will,
  • goodness,
  • grace,
  • graciousness,
  • helpfulness,
  • humanity,
  • impartiality,
  • indulgence,
  • judiciousness,
  • kindliness,
  • kindness,
  • law,
  • laxness,
  • leave,
  • lenience,
  • liberalism,
  • liberality,
  • liberalness,
  • liberty,
  • license,
  • long-suffering,
  • love,
  • magnanimity,
  • mercifulness,
  • mercy,
  • moderation,
  • neutrality,
  • nonviolence,
  • pacifism,
  • pardon,
  • patience,
  • permission,
  • permissiveness,
  • pity,
  • prudence,
  • quarter,
  • quiet,
  • release,
  • repose,
  • reprieve,
  • responsiveness,
  • restraint,
  • ruth,
  • self-control,
  • self-denial,
  • self-restraint,
  • sensitivity,
  • serenity,
  • sobriety,
  • softness,
  • stability,
  • sufferance,
  • sympathy,
  • tameness,
  • temperance,
  • temperateness,
  • tenderness,
  • tolerance,
  • toleration,
  • tranquillity,
  • understanding,
  • unselfishness,
  • warmth,
  • yearning,
  • Befriending,
  • Indulgency,
  • Inexcitability,
  • Kind-heartedness,
  • Vouchsafement,
  • CARITAS,
  • happy medium,
  • Open-heartedness,
  • Warm-heartedness,
  • fellow-feeling.

Antonyms for Lenity:

• n.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abhorrence, abomination, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, atrocity, barbarity, bile, bitterness, brutality, castigation, cattiness, chastisement, coarseness, cruelty, denial, detestation, disagreement, discipline, disfavor, disfavour, enmity, execration, gall, grudge, hardness, harshness, hate, hatefulness, hatred, hostility, indifference, intolerance, jaundice, jealousy, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, mercilessness, pique, pitilessness, prohibition, punishment, rancor, refusal, reprisal, requital, resentment, retaliation, retribution, revenge, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, scolding, selfishness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, unkindness, vengeance, venom, viciousness, vindictiveness, violence, virulence, vitriol, ill will, uncharitableness, invidiousness, Hard-heartedness.