Atrocity
Atrocity noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.
Usage example: wars often unleash a level of atrocity that would be unimaginable in peacetime
Cruelness and atrocity are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cruelness" instead a noun "Atrocity".
Nearby Word: atrocious
Cruelness
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
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- violence and atrocity
- violence and cruelness
- brutality and atrocity
- brutality and cruelness
- savagery and atrocity
- savagery and cruelness
- enormity and atrocity
- enormity and cruelness
- wrong and atrocity
- wrong and cruelness
- fierceness and atrocity
- fierceness and cruelness
- harshness and atrocity
- harshness and cruelness
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Cruelness and Atrocity. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/atrocity/cruelness
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Cruelness or Atrocity. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/atrocity/cruelness.
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