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
Savagery
Savagery noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.
Usage example: a study of the savagery shown by soldiers in wartime
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- violence and cruelness
- violence and savagery
- brutality and cruelness
- brutality and savagery
- severity and cruelness
- severity and savagery
- fierceness and cruelness
- fierceness and savagery
- harshness and cruelness
- harshness and savagery
- atrocity and cruelness
- atrocity and savagery
- inhumanity and cruelness
- inhumanity and savagery
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