mercifulness

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
    

• a disposition to be kind and forgiving
  • in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband
    

• the feeling that motivates compassion

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  clemency , mercy
• Antonyms: 
  mercilessness , unmercifulness