lenience

Other forms of lenience

plural

leniences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lenience

What does lenience mean?

lenience means "mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lenience?

lenience has 2 syllables: le-nience. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for lenience?

Close synonyms include leniency, mildness, lenity, indulgence, leniency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lenience a common word?

lenience is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.