Cruelness and Tenderheartedness

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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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Tenderheartedness is an antonym for cruelness.

Tenderheartedness noun - Sympathetic concern for the well-being of others.

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Cruelness is an antonym for tenderheartedness.

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