[syn: lenience, leniency]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lenience \Le"ni*ence\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*ens or l[=e]n"yens; 106),
Leniency \Le"ni*en*cy\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*en*s[y^] or
l[=e]n"yen*s[y^]), n.
The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
leniency
n 1: mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
[syn: lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity]
2: a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much
indulgence spoils a child" [syn: indulgence, lenience,
leniency]
3: lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or
parents or teachers [syn: lenience, leniency]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "leniency":
abatement, acceptance, accommodatingness, agreeableness, allayment,
alleviation, assuagement, attentiveness, benevolence, blunting,
calming, carelessness, charitableness, charity, clemency,
commiseration, compassion, complaisance, concern, condolence,
condonation, considerateness, consideration, damping, deadening,
delicacy, demulsion, diminution, downiness, dulcification, dulling,
easiness, easing, easygoingness, endurance, falling-off, favor,
featheriness, feeling, flossiness, fluffiness, forbearance,
forbearing, forbearingness, forgiveness, fortitude, generousness,
gentleness, grace, heedfulness, helpfulness, humanity, hushing,
impotence, imprecision, indifference, indulgence, insolidity,
kindness, laxity, laxness, lenience, lenity, lessening, letdown,
letup, lightening, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity,
looseness, loosening, lulling, magnanimity, mellowness,
mercifulness, mercy, mindfulness, mitigation, modulation,
mollification, morbidezza, negligence, nonresistiveness,
nonrigidity, obligingness, overindulgence, overpermissiveness,
pacification, palliation, pardon, pathos, patience,
patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, pity,
plushiness, pulpiness, quarter, quietening, quieting, reduction,
regard, regardfulness, relaxation, relaxedness, relief, remission,
remissness, reprieve, ruth, satininess, self-control, self-pity,
silkiness, slackening, slackness, sloppiness, softening, softness,
solicitousness, solicitude, soothing, sponginess, stoicism,
subduement, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, sympathy, tact,
tactfulness, tempering, tenderness, thought, thoughtfulness,
tolerance, toleration, tranquilization, unrestraint, unsolidity,
velvetiness, waiting game, waiting it out, weakness