forbearance (n.)
- abandonment
- abeyance
- abjuration
- abnegation
- acceptance
- avoidance
- benevolence
- cessation
- charitableness
- charity
- circumvention
- clemency
- clementness
- commiseration
- compassion
- condolence
- condonation
- constraint
- denial
- discontinuance
- disregard
- dodge
- duck
- easiness
- easygoingness
- elusion
- elusiveness
- endurance
- equivocation
- escape
- evasion
- evasiveness
- favor
- feeling
- forestalling
- forgiveness
- forgivingness
- fortitude
- frugality
- generousness
- gentleness
- grace
- humaneness
- humanity
- indulgence
- kindness
- laxness
- lenience
- leniency
- lenity
- long-sufferance
- long-suffering
- longanimity
- magnanimity
- mercifulness
- mercy
- mildness
- mitigation
- moderateness
- moderation
- neutrality
- nonintervention
- pardon
- pathos
- patience
- permissiveness
- perseverance
- pity
- prevention
- quarter
- relief
- relinquishment
- renouncement
- renunciation
- reprieve
- resignation
- restraint
- ruth
- self-control
- self-denial
- self-discipline
- self-pity
- self-restraint
- shunning
- shy
- sidestep
- slip
- soberness
- sobriety
- softness
- stoicism
- sufferance
- suspension
- sympathy
- temperance
- temperateness
- tenderness
- tolerance
- toleration
- waiver
- zigzag
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
