cruelty synonyms

cruelty

n.

brutality, barbarity, sadism, savageness, unkindness, inhumanity, barbarism, mercilessness, barbarousness, unmercifulness, wickedness, ruthlessness, severity, malignity, malice, rancor, venom, coldness, unfeelingness, callousness, insensibility, indifference, insensitivity, fierceness, viciousness, bestiality, animality, truculence, ferocity, savagery, brutishness, implacability, grimness, monstrousness, inflexibility, fiendishness, hardness of heart, bloodthirstiness, unnaturalness, heartlessness, relentlessness, torture, persecution, inquisition, despotism, harshness, outrage, atrocity; see also evil 1, tyranny.

Antonyms benevolence, kindness*, humanity.

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