lenity
/ˈlɛnɪti
/noun [mass noun] literary
The quality of being kind or gentle: a smile crossed her face, but this unexpected lenity was short-lived
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French lenite, or from Latin lenitas, from lenis 'gentle'.
Rhymes
- long-standing
- long-stay
- Long, Stephen Harriman
- longstop
- Longstreet, James
- long-suffering
- long-sufferingly
- long suit
- long tail
- long-tailed duck
- long-tailed field mouse
- long-tailed tit
- long-term
- long-termism
- long-termist
- long-term memory
- long-term potentiation
- long-time
- long time no see
- long tom
- long ton
- long-track
- longueur
- long underwear
- long vacation