unfeelingness

noun

Definition of unfeelingnessnext
as in inhumanness

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  1. cruelty
  2. inhumanity
  3. barbarity
  4. sadism
  5. savagery
  6. ferocity
  7. brutality
Noun
  • His father, Colin Gray, is facing 29 charges — including two counts of involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder and cruelty to children — related to the shooting at his son’s high school.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Patole's words can feel shocking to those in the West, where the conversation about eating meat revolves around ethics: the cruelty of animal slaughter and the environmental cost of raising animals for meat.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.
    Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
    Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
Definition of inhumanity
Noun
  • The dehumanizing treatment prisoners received on Devil’s Island was, in effect, a continuation of the barbarity long inflicted on French Guiana’s enslaved population.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Guillén’s 2017 caricature shows Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro clubbing a woman representing democracy to a bloody pulp, the way his security forces were savaging pro-democracy demonstrators that year — barbarity a U.N. report designated as crimes against humanity.
    Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Bill Moseley enters the franchise as Chop-Top, a new family member who was apparently in Vietnam during the events of the first film and has returned with a metal plate in his head and a penchant for grating sadism.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Popular on Variety But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of sadism
Noun
  • Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of savagery
Noun
  • Between 1948 and 1955, according to a history compiled by the Mayo Clinic, the virus spread with such ferocity that parents kept their children away from swimming pools, public gatherings, cinemas and even schools.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The regime fell so quickly and the looting and burning followed with such ferocity, that much of the evidence of Assad's crimes is lost.
    James Longman, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of ferocity
Noun
  • Most of the hundreds of human skeletons recovered from 2500 to 1500 BC in the country typically have not contained evidence of brutality, the study authors said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The week that changed Syria For more than a decade, Syria was synonymous with war, brutality and the family dynasty visiting that violence on its own people.
    Josh Feldman, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of brutality
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