leniency

Other forms of leniency

plural

leniencies·

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 leniency

What does leniency mean?

leniency 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 leniency?

leniency has 3 syllables: le-nien-cy. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /ˈlinjənsi/.

What is another word for leniency?

Close synonyms include lenience, mildness, lenity, indulgence, lenience. 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 leniency a common word?

leniency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.