Lenity and Resentment
Opposite meaning words
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
Resentment is an antonym for lenity.
Resentment
Resentment noun - A lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong.
Lenity is an antonym for resentment.
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Resentment and Lenity. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lenity/resentment
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