Lenience and Unkindness

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Lenience noun - Kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it.

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Unkindness is an antonym for lenience in topics: grace, tolerance.

Nearby Words: lenient, leniently, leniency

Unkindness noun - Lack of sympathy.

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Lenience is an antonym for unkindness.

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Unkindness and Lenience. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lenience/unkindness

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