| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, benignancy, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, kindliness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance |
Antonyms: |
cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | absolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
Synonyms: |
acquittal, amnesty, compurgation, exculpation, forgiveness, mercy, pardon, release |
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
Synonyms: |
affection, agape, altruism, amity, attachment, benevolence, benignity, bountifulness, bounty, caritas, clemency, fellow feeling, generosity, goodness, goodwill, grace, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, lenity, love, magnanimity, mercy, tenderheartedness |
Antonyms: |
malevolence, uncharitableness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
Synonyms: |
caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration |
Antonyms: |
no mercy |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning |
Antonyms: |
cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, mercilessness, tyranny |
| Main Entry: | consideration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high regard |
Synonyms: |
attentiveness, awareness, concern, considerateness, esteem, estimation, favor, forbearance, friendliness, heed, heedfulness, kindliness, kindness, mercy, mindfulness, respect, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, tolerance |
Antonyms: |
disdain, disregard |
| Main Entry: | forgiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon; end of blame |
Synonyms: |
absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, condonation, dispensation, exculpation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, lenience, lenity, mercy, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quarter, quittance, remission, remittal, reprieve, respite, vindication |
Antonyms: |
accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence |
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
Synonyms: |
advantage, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, ethicality, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, graciousness, honesty, honor, humaneness, integrity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, obligingness, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, wholesomeness, worth |
Antonyms: |
evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | humanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benevolence |
Synonyms: |
altruism, amity, brotherly love, charity, compassion, empathy, feeling, friendship, generosity, goodness, goodwill, heart, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | kindness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | helping act; service |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, aid, alms, assistance, benediction, benefaction, benevolence, benison, blessing, boon, boost, bounty, charity, dispensation, favor, generosity, good deed, good turn, help, indulgence, lift, mercy, philanthropy, relief, succor |
Antonyms: |
barbarousness, cruelty |