inhumanity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=hu=man=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

inhumanity, n. [L. inhumanitas: cf. F. inhumanité.].

 The quality or state of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty; barbarity.  [1913 Webster]
"Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inhumanity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 brutality; barbarousness; callousness.
2 an inhumane act.

THESAURUS

inhumanity

acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, impetuosity, inclemency, inhumaneness, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, sharpness, terrorism, truculence, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty

ROGET THESAURUS

inhumanity

Malevolence

N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.