Synonyms of lenience

lenience

noun

ˈlē-nyən(t)s 

as in mercy

kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it

a judge's reputation for lenience towards first-time criminals

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mercy
• mercifulness
• leniency
• empathy
• sympathy
• clemency
• compassion
• forbearance
• kindness
• grace
• lenity
• charity
• tenderness
• quarter
• pity
• goodness
• generosity
• understanding
• affection
• love
• humanitarianism
• gentleness
• softness
• goodwill
• philanthropy
• magnanimity
• meekness
• benevolence
• favor
• altruism
• worship
• nobility
• devotion
• kindliness
• humaneness
• mildness
• care
• niceness
• commiseration

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lenience

Trilogy pulled through because of customers who went out of their way to support the business and order food to-go, the landlord’s lenience with rent, the PPP funding, its outdoor space and the health focus of her business at a time when health was on everyone’s mind. —Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025

Conservative applicants also voiced concern about liberal LGBTQ laws and lenience on crime. —Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024

Experts say this level of lenience can lead to rebellion, risk-prone temperament, and unhealthy habits. —Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 29 Sep. 2024

Caban’s lenience in the Lucas matter isn’t the first time the commissioner has let bad behavior slide. —Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024