Hatefulness and Lenity
Opposite meaning words
Hatefulness
Hatefulness noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.
Lenity is an antonym for hatefulness.
Lenity
Lenity noun - Kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it.
Usage example: a social critic who argues that judicial lenity is chiefly to blame for the increased criminality that plagues us
Hatefulness is an antonym for lenity.
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