Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lenity

1 sense of lenity

Sense 1
lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity -- (mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant)
       => mercifulness, mercy -- (a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband")