Synonyms for gentleness
gen·tle·ness

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1. gentleness

   Mercy is the exercise of less severity than one deserves, or in a more extended sense, the granting of kindness or favor beyond what one may rightly claim. Grace is favor, kindness, or blessing shown to the undeserving; forgiveness, mercy, and pardon are exercised toward the ill-deserving. Pardon remits the outward penalty which the offender deserves; forgiveness dismisses resentment or displeasure from the heart of the one offended; mercy seeks the highest possible good of the offender. There may be mercy without pardon, as in the mitigation of sentence, or in all possible alleviation of necessary severity; there may be cases where pardon would not be mercy, since it would encourage to repetition of the offense, from which timely punishment might have saved. Mercy is also used in the wider sense of refraining from harshness or cruelty toward those who are in one's power without fault of their own; as, they besought the robber to have mercy. Clemency is a colder word than mercy, and without its religious associations, signifying mildness and moderation in the use of power where severity would have legal or military, rather than moral sanction; it often denotes a habitual mildness of disposition on the part of the powerful, and is matter rather of good nature or policy than of principle. Leniency or lenity denotes an easy-going avoidance of severity; these words are more general and less magisterial than clemency; we should speak of the leniency of a parent, the clemency of a conqueror. Compare PITY.

   Synonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

   Antonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Preposition:
   The mercy of God to or toward sinners; have mercy on or upon one.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. gradualness, gentlenessnoun

   the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual

   Synonyms:
   gradualness, mildness, graduality, softness

2. gentleness, softness, mildnessnoun

   acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered

   "his fingers have learned gentleness"; "suddenly her gigantic power melted into softness for the baby"; "even in the pulpit there are moments when mildness of manner is not enough"

   Synonyms:
   unmanliness, mildness, unfitness, indistinctness, womanishness, lenience, fuzziness, blurriness, clemency, leniency, effeminateness, gradualness, fogginess, lenity, sissiness, softness, balminess, effeminacy

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1. softness

   softness of heart means someone who gives way easily due to compassion or empathy. softness of a material means it is comfortable, smooth and soft to the touch.

   the baby snuggled down onto the softness of her freshly-laundered blanket.

   Submitted by Soulwriter on June 7, 2021  

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1. List of paraphrases for "gentleness":

   kindness, sweetness, softness

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1. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

2. Irish Proverb:

   True strength lies in gentleness.

3. Douglas Kennedy:

   Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man, we believe in the gentleness that spared his life, but in taming his act of violence, he should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.

4. Han Suyin:

   There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

5. Leo Rosten:

   I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.