'Leniency' definitions:
Definition of 'leniency'
(from WordNet)
noun
Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant [syn: lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity]
noun
A disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child" [syn: indulgence, lenience, leniency]
noun
Lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers [syn: lenience, leniency]
Definition of 'Leniency'
From: GCIDE
- Lenience \Le"ni*ence\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*ens or l[=e]n"yens; 106), Leniency \Le"ni*en*cy\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*en*s[y^] or l[=e]n"yen*s[y^]), n. The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'leniency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- acceptance,
- accommodatingness,
- agreeableness,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- assuagement,
- attentiveness,
- benevolence,
- blunting,
- calming,
- carelessness,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- clemency,
- commiseration,
- compassion,
- complaisance,
- concern,
- condolence,
- condonation,
- considerateness,
- consideration,
- damping,
- deadening,
- delicacy,
- demulsion,
- diminution,
- downiness,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easiness,
- easing,
- easygoingness,
- endurance,
- falling-off,
- favor,
- featheriness,
- feeling,
- flossiness,
- fluffiness,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- forgiveness,
- fortitude,
- generousness,
- gentleness,
- grace,
- heedfulness,
- helpfulness,
- humanity,
- hushing,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- indifference,
- indulgence,
- insolidity,
- kindness,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- lenience,
- lenity,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- looseness,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- magnanimity,
- mellowness,
- mercifulness,
- mercy,
- mindfulness,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- morbidezza,
- negligence,
- nonresistiveness,
- nonrigidity,
- obligingness,
- overindulgence,
- overpermissiveness,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- permissiveness,
- perseverance,
- pity,
- plushiness,
- pulpiness,
- quarter,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- regard,
- regardfulness,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- relief,
- remission,
- remissness,
- reprieve,
- ruth,
- satininess,
- self-control,
- self-pity,
- silkiness,
- slackening,
- slackness,
- sloppiness,
- softening,
- softness,
- solicitousness,
- solicitude,
- soothing,
- sponginess,
- stoicism,
- subduement,
- sufferance,
- sweet reasonableness,
- sympathy,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tempering,
- tenderness,
- thought,
- thoughtfulness,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- tranquilization,
- unrestraint,
- unsolidity,
- velvetiness,
- waiting game,
- waiting it out,
- weakness