Sympathy vs Leniency - What's the difference?
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A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
The ability to share the feelings of another.
A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.
The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.
An act of being lenient.
Sympathy is a related term of leniency.
As nouns the difference between sympathy and leniency
is that sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion while leniency is the quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.sympathy
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(wikipedia sympathy)Noun
(sympathies)- 'Sympathy' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
Usage notes
* Used similarly to empathy, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, (term) is stronger and more intimate, while sympathy is weaker and more distant; see .Antonyms
* contempt (context-dependent)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l), (l)leniency
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Noun
- The convicted felon asked for leniency , but because the crime was so heinous the judge refused and gave the maximum sentence.