Lenity and Meanness

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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

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Meanness is an antonym for lenity in topics: grace, tolerance.

Meanness noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

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Lenity is an antonym for meanness.

Nearby Words: mean, meanly

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Meanness and Lenity. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lenity/meanness

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