- mercifulness, mercy - the feeling that motivates compassion
--1 is a kind of compassion, compassionateness
--1 has particulars: forgiveness - mercifulness, mercy - a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"
--2 is a kind of humaneness
Antonyms: mercilessness, unmercifulness
--2 has particulars:compassion, pity; forgivingness, kindness; lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity - clemency, mercifulness, mercy - leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"
--3 is a kind of lenience, leniency
--3 has particulars:commutation, re-sentencing; amnesty, pardon, free pardon; reprieve, respite