| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
Synonyms: |
absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, expiation, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, purgation, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift, sorrow, suffering |
| Main Entry: | atonement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation |
Synonyms: |
amends, expiation, indemnification, payment, penance, propitiation, recompense, redemption, redress, reparation, restitution, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | attrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
Synonyms: |
contriteness, penance, penitence, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance |
Antonyms: |
happiness |
| Main Entry: | contrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
Synonyms: |
attrition, compunction, contriteness, humiliation, penance, penitence, penitency, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, self-reproach, sorrow |
Antonyms: |
hurtfulness, indifference, meanness |
| Main Entry: | penitence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shame, sorrow |
Synonyms: |
anguish, attrition, compunction, contriteness, contrition, debasement, degradation, distress, grief, humbling, humiliation, penance, qualm, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, ruth, sadness, scruple, self-castigation, self-condemnation, self-flagellation, self-punishment, self-reproach |
Antonyms: |
shamelessness |
| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty |
Synonyms: |
abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, victimization, what for |
Antonyms: |
encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward |
| Main Entry: | remorse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty or bad conscience |
Synonyms: |
anguish, attrition, compassion, compunction, contriteness, contrition, grief, guilt, pangs of conscience, penance, penitence, penitency, pity, regret, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, self-reproach, shame, sorrow |
| Notes: | regret carries no explicit admission that one is responsible for an incident, while remorse implies a sense of guilty responsibility and a greater feeling of personal pain and anguish |
Antonyms: |
good conscience, happiness, remorselessness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | reparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation, amends |
Synonyms: |
adjustment, apology, atonement, damages, dues, emolument, expiation, indemnification, indemnity, making good, payment, penance, propitiation, quittance, recompense, redemption, redress, remuneration, renewal, repair, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, satisfaction, settlement, squaring things |
Antonyms: |
extortion, penalty, theft |
| Main Entry: | mea culpa |
| Part of Speech: | noun, interjection |
| Definition: | guilt acknowledgment |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment of error, confession, my fault, penance, repentance |
| Main Entry: | immolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sacrifice |
Synonyms: |
atonement, deduction, discount, hecatomb, libation, oblation, offering, penance, reduction, reparation, sacrificial lamb, victim |