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inhumanity noun [ ɪnhjʊˈmanɪti ]

• extremely cruel and brutal behaviour.
• "man's inhumanity to man"
Similar: cruelty, harshness, brutality, callousness, sadism, severity, savagery, viciousness, barbarity, barbarism, bestiality, monstrousness, fiendishness, evil, evilness, wickedness, heinousness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, remorselessness, cold-bloodedness, heartlessness, hard-heartedness, stone-heartedness, unforgivingness, unkindness, unkindliness, inconsiderateness, uncaringness, lack of compassion, lack of feeling, lack of sympathy, beastliness, dastardliness, egregiousness, flagitiousness,
Opposite: humanity, compassion,
Origin: late 15th century: from Old French inhumanite or Latin inhumanitas, from inhumanus ‘inhuman’.


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