| Main Entry: | remorsefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penitence |
Synonyms: |
anguish, attrition, compunction, contriteness, contrition, debasement, degradation, distress, grief, humbling, humiliation, penance, penitency, qualm, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, ruefulness, ruth, sadness, scruple, self-castigation, self-condemnation, self-flagellation, self-punishment, self-reproach |
| Main Entry: | attrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
Synonyms: |
contriteness, penance, penitence, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance |
Antonyms: |
happiness |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | contriteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrition |
Synonyms: |
attrition, compunction, guilt, penitence, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, shame |
| Main Entry: | penitency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penitence |
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 |
| Concept: | Penitence. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse; regret., self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature., acknowledgement, confession (disclosure); apology; recantation; penance; resipiscence., awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool., penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, "a sadder and a wiser man" [Coleridge].
-verbs
repent, be sorry for; be penitent; rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess, (disclose) [more]; humble oneself; beg pardon (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes, (do penance) [more]; learn by experience.
-adjectives
penitent; repenting; repentant, contrite; conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing, self-convicted., penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed; not hardened; unhardened.
-adverbs
mea culpa.
-phrases
peccavi; erubuit; salva res est [Terence]; Tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin; "and wet his grave with my repentant tears" [Richard III].
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Antonyms: |
impenitence |
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