mercy :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (5)

n. alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"

mercifulness

n. a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"

mercifulness

n. the feeling that motivates compassion

clemency, mercifulness

n. leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"

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Fuzzynyms (5)

absolution, remission, remission of sin

n. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

sympathy, fellow feeling

n. sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

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Antonyms (2)

mercilessness, unmercifulness

n. inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving

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