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LENIENCY Antonyms

There are 12 antonyms of the word leniency. (opposite meanings)
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Best Opposite Words For LENIENCY

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austerity
nounn
noun

• the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

firmness
nounn
noun

• the muscle tone of healthy tissue

• the trait of being resolute

• the property of being unyielding to the touch

• the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place

hardness
nounn
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
nounn
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
nounn
noun

• a lack of physical flexibility

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

rigidity
nounn
noun

• the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

rigidness
nounn
noun

• the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

rigor
nounn
noun

• something hard to endure

• the quality of being valid and rigorous

• excessive sternness

severity
nounn
noun

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

• something hard to endure

• extreme plainness

• excessive sternness

sternness
nounn
noun

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

• uncompromising resolution

strictness
nounn
noun

• conscientious attention to rules and details

• uncompromising resolution

stringency
nounn
noun

• a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

• conscientious attention to rules and details

Alternatives for AUSTERITY

Alternatives for FIRMNESS

Alternatives for HARDNESS

Alternatives for HARSHNESS

Alternatives for INFLEXIBILITY

Alternatives for RIGIDITY

Alternatives for RIGIDNESS

Alternatives for RIGOR

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