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inhumanity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun inhumanity has 2 senses
- inhumanity(n = noun.attribute) inhumaneness - the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others; Array is a kind of quality
- inhumanity(n = noun.act) atrocity - an act of atrocious cruelty; Array is a kind of cruelty, inhuman treatment
has particulars: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness, bestiality, mercilessness, unmercifulness
Derived form adjective inhuman1
has particulars: barbarism, barbarity, brutality, savagery, outrage, enormity
CIDE DICTIONARY
inhumanity, n. [L. inhumanitas: cf. F. inhumanité.].
The quality or state of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty; barbarity. [1913 Webster]
"Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn." [1913 Webster]
Makes countless thousands mourn." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inhumanity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 brutality; barbarousness; callousness.
2 an inhumane act.
1 brutality; barbarousness; callousness.
2 an inhumane act.
THESAURUS
inhumanity
acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, impetuosity, inclemency, inhumaneness, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, sharpness, terrorism, truculence, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton crueltyROGET THESAURUS
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Malevolence
N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.
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