Cruelness and Kindness

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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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Kindness is an antonym for cruelness in ferocity topic.

Kindness noun - An act of kind assistance.

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Cruelness is an antonym for kindness.

Nearby Words: kind, kindly, kindliness

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Kindness and Cruelness. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruelness/kindness

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