Synonyms for Penitence:

• n.

  •compunction (noun)
  • stab conscience,
  • mis giving,
  • mis-giving.
  •contrition (noun)
  • self-reproaches,
  • self reproaches,
  • selfreproaches,
  • self reproach,
  • selfreproach.
  •guilt (noun)
  • sinfulness,
  • criminality,
  • self-condemnation,
  • malefactions,
  • blameworthiness,
  • answerability,
  • Malefaction,
  • criminalities,
  • Peccability.
  •oblation (noun)
  • offering,
  • devotion,
  • oblation,
  • collection,
  • offertory,
  • votive offering,
  • sacrifice,
  • burnt offering,
  • dedication,
  • libation.
  •penance (noun)
  • self flagellation,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • self-flagellations,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • expiations,
  • self flagellations,
  • selfflagellations,
  • selfflagellation.
  •penitence (noun)
  • attrition,
  • atonement,
  • breast-beating,
  • apology,
  • confession.
  •regret (noun)
  • lamentation,
  • qualm,
  • heartache,
  • shame,
  • contrition,
  • sorrow,
  • grief.
  •remorse (noun)
  • study at repentance.
  •repentance (noun)
  • sorrinesses.
  •shame, sorrow (noun)
  • self-castigation.
  •uneasiness (noun)
  • dis-quiet,
  • un certainties,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis quietudes,
  • un-rests,
  • in-quietudes,
  • un-certainty,
  • dis belief,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • dis beliefs,
  • dis-quietude,
  • dis pleasure,
  • in-stabilities,
  • dis-quiets,
  • un easinesses,
  • in stabilities,
  • dis-beliefs,
  • dis contents,
  • un-rest,
  • dis-contents,
  • queasinesses,
  • dis quietude,
  • in quietudes,
  • dis content,
  • in-stability,
  • un easiness,
  • un rest,
  • in quietude,
  • dis-belief,
  • in-quietude,
  • un certainty,
  • un-certainties,
  • dis pleasures,
  • dis quiet,
  • un-easinesses,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis-content,
  • in stability,
  • dyspathies,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • dis quiets.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Penitency,
  • remorsefulness.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flagellation,
  • purgation,
  • bitterness,
  • embarrassment,
  • sadness,
  • abject apology,
  • acknowledgment,
  • fasting,
  • self-punishment,
  • woe,
  • repining,
  • penitently,
  • purgatory,
  • excuse,
  • asceticism,
  • anguish,
  • abrasion,
  • maladie,
  • concern,
  • degradation,
  • punishment,
  • regretfulness,
  • self-abasement,
  • suffering,
  • self-accusation,
  • Lustration,
  • homesickness,
  • bad conscience,
  • humiliation,
  • mortification,
  • repent,
  • amends,
  • reparation,
  • maceration,
  • guilty conscience,
  • regrets,
  • anxiety,
  • scruple,
  • compensation,
  • debasement,
  • mea culpa,
  • nostalgia,
  • change of heart,
  • cold purgatorial fires,
  • distress,
  • SAETA,
  • ruefulness,
  • reformation,
  • humbling,
  • sorrowfulness,
  • self-mortification.

Antonyms for Penitence:

• n.

  • shame, sorrow
    joy, shamelessness, elevation, contentedness, happiness, comfort, satisfaction, approval.
  • Other antonyms:
    obstinacy, hardness, obduracy, complacency, self-complacency, self-congratulation, stubbornness, remorselessness, content, impenitence.