Cruelness and Sympathy

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Cruelness noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.

Usage example: far from being healers, the doctors in the Nazi death camps were notable for their senseless cruelness

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Sympathy is an antonym for cruelness.

Sympathy noun - Sorrow or the capacity to feel sorrow for another's suffering or misfortune.

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Cruelness is an antonym for sympathy.

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Sympathy and Cruelness. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruelness/sympathy

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