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CLEMENCY Antonyms

11 antonyms for clemency. (opposite meanings)

Best Opposite Words For CLEMENCY

WordSaveSyns..UsageType
cruelty

noun

n

noun

• a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering

• feelings of extreme heartlessness

• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

hardness

noun

n

noun

• the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale

• a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering

• devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness

• the quality of being difficult to do

• excessive sternness

harshness

noun

n

noun

• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

• the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

• excessive sternness

inflexibility

noun

n

noun

• a lack of physical flexibility

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

mercilessness

noun

n

noun

• feelings of extreme heartlessness

• inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving

rigidity

noun

n

noun

• the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

severity

noun

n

noun

• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

• something hard to endure

• extreme plainness

• excessive sternness

sternness

noun

n

noun

• the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding

• uncompromising resolution

strictness

noun

n

noun

• conscientious attention to rules and details

• uncompromising resolution

unforgivingness

noun

n

noun

• The quality of having no allowance for weakness.

unyieldingness

noun

n

noun

• resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible

Alternatives for CRUELTY

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Alternatives for HARDNESS

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Alternatives for HARSHNESS

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Alternatives for INFLEXIBILITY

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Alternatives for MERCILESSNESS

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Alternatives for RIGIDITY

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Alternatives for SEVERITY

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Alternatives for STERNNESS

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