[syn: lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mildness \Mild"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper;
the mildness of the winter.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mildness
n 1: good weather with comfortable temperatures [syn:
mildness, clemency]
2: acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered;
"his fingers have learned gentleness"; "suddenly her gigantic
power melted into softness for the baby"; "even in the pulpit
there are moments when mildness of manner is not enough"
[syn: gentleness, softness, mildness]
3: mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
[syn: lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "mildness":
abnegation, abstinence, acceptance, affability, amiability,
bonhomie, calm, calmness, clemency, clementness, compassion,
conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, cordiality,
deadness, dispassion, dovelikeness, easiness, easygoingness,
evenness, flatness, flavorlessness, forbearance, forbearing,
geniality, gentleness, golden mean, good disposition, good humor,
good nature, good temper, goodnaturedness, goodtemperedness,
happy medium, humaneness, humanity, humility, impartiality,
inanity, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity,
judiciousness, juste-milieu, lamblikeness, laxness, lenience,
leniency, lenientness, lenity, lifelessness, meden agan, meekness,
mercifulness, mercy, middle way, moderateness, moderation,
moderationism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess,
pacifism, patience, peaceableness, pity, prudence, quietness,
repose, restraint, saplessness, savorlessness, self-abnegation,
self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety,
softness, stability, staleness, steadiness, sweetness, tameness,
tastelessness, temperance, temperateness, tenderness, thinness,
tolerance, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance,
unextremeness, unsavoriness, vapidity, via media, weakness,
wishy-washiness