Synonyms of cruelness

cruelness

noun

as in cruelty

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

far from being healers, the doctors in the Nazi death camps were notable for their senseless cruelness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cruelty
• brutality
• atrocity
• inhumanity
• savagery
• heartlessness
• barbarity
• sadism
• savageness
• murderousness
• viciousness
• fiendishness
• barbarousness
• inhumanness
• truculence
• wantonness
• ruthlessness
• mercilessness
• atrociousness
• pitilessness
• meanness
• ferocity
• grimness
• oppressiveness
• ferociousness
• spitefulness
• fierceness
• bloodthirstiness
• malevolence
• maliciousness
• hatefulness
• hard-heartedness
• bloodlust
• unfeelingness
• malignity
• harshness
• sanguinity
• cattiness
• nastiness
• fellness
• sanguineness
• despitefulness
• heavy-handedness
• hardhandedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sympathy
• compassion
• kindness
• humanity
• humaneness
• benignity
• tenderness
• warmth
• tenderheartedness
• kindheartedness
• warmness
• good-heartedness
• pity
• mercy
• leniency
• clemency
• warmheartedness
• mercifulness
• charitableness