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
Cruelty
Cruelty noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.
Usage example: centuries after he ravaged Europe, Attila the Hun remains notorious for his cruelty
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- violence and cruelness
- violence and cruelty
- brutality and cruelness
- brutality and cruelty
- savagery and cruelness
- savagery and cruelty
- severity and cruelness
- severity and cruelty
- fierceness and cruelness
- fierceness and cruelty
- harshness and cruelness
- harshness and cruelty
- atrocity and cruelness
- atrocity and cruelty
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