mercifulness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the feeling that motivates compassion
Types & categories
- compassion hypernym
- forgiveness hyponym
Related & opposite
- merciful derivation
Sense 2 noun
a disposition to be kind and forgiving
in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband
Types & categories
- humaneness hypernym
- compassion hyponym
- forgivingness hyponym
- lenience hyponym
Related & opposite
- unmercifulness antonym
- merciful derivation
Sense 3 noun
leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
he threw himself on the mercy of the court
Types & categories
- lenience hypernym
- re-sentencing hyponym
- free pardon hyponym
- quarter hyponym
- reprieve hyponym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | merciful |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | compassion |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | forgiveness |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | unmercifulness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | merciful |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | humaneness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | compassion |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | forgivingness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | lenience |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | clement |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | merciful |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | lenience |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | re-sentencing |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | free pardon |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | quarter |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | reprieve |