leniency

from 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}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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

    

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