cruelty
noun
[ ˈkrʊəlti ]
• cruel behaviour or attitudes.
• "he has treated her with extreme cruelty"
Similar:
brutality,
savagery,
savageness,
inhumanity,
barbarism,
barbarousness,
brutishness,
bloodthirstiness,
murderousness,
viciousness,
ferocity,
ferociousness,
fierceness,
callousness,
sadism,
ruthlessness,
relentlessness,
mercilessness,
pitilessness,
remorselessness,
lack of regard,
lack of sympathy,
lack of charity,
heartlessness,
cold-heartedness,
cold-bloodedness,
severity,
harshness,
inclemency,
wickedness,
badness,
baseness,
iniquity,
blackness,
black-heartedness,
evil,
fiendishness,
devilishness,
heinousness,
nastiness,
unkindness,
abuse,
ferity,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French crualte, based on Latin crudelitas, from crudelis (see cruel).