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Inhumanity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Lack of pity or compassion.

n. An inhuman or cruel act.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The lack of compassion.

n. An inhuman act.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty; barbarity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty; barbarity.

n. Synonyms Unkindness, brutality, ruthlessness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others

n. an act of atrocious cruelty

Word Usage

"Africa, and the people in the market-place a lively and chromatic jangle; but the shadow of what we call inhumanity (when we are trying to persuade ourselves that humanity is something very different) chills and darkens the heart."

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cruelty barbarity

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

insanity profanity sanity vanity

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

barbarity impiety dishonesty ingratitude rapacity licentiousness turpitude baseness brutality rudeness