A legally binding promise to refrain
from doing a particular act.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
forbearance (noun)1.
a refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due
2.
the act of - forbearing patience
3.
the quality of being forbearing - leniency
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
forbearance (noun)1.
the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining
SYNONYMS:
forbearance, long-suffering, sufferance, toleranceRELATED WORDS:
acquiescence, resignation; passiveness, passivity; amenability, compliance, conformism, docility, obedience, subordination, tractability, willingness; discipline, self-control; submission, submissivenessNEAR ANTONYMS:
defiance; contrariness, disobedience, insubordination, intractability, recalcitrance, resistance, willfulness2.
kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it
SYNONYMS:
charity, clemency, forbearance, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, quarterRELATED WORDS:
humanitarianism, philanthropy; empathy, pity, sympathy, understanding; commiseration, favor, grace; benevolence, care, compassion, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, humaneness, kindliness, kindness, meekness, mildness, niceness, softness, tenderness; altruism, generosity, magnanimity, nobility; affection, devotion, love, worshipNEAR ANTONYMS:
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, uncharitableness; reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance; venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol; atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, violence, wantonness; castigation, chastisement, discipline, punishment, scolding; abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, hate, hatred, loathing; cattiness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen; animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, gall, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment; bile, jaundice, rancor; hatefulness, invidiousness; coarseness, hardness, harshness, roughness
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