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
Softness
Softness noun - The quality or state of lacking strength of will or character.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- kindness and lenity
- kindness and softness
- benevolence and lenity
- benevolence and softness
- compassion and lenity
- compassion and softness
- sympathy and lenity
- sympathy and softness
- humanity and lenity
- humanity and softness
- gentleness and lenity
- gentleness and softness
- tenderness and lenity
- tenderness and softness
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