Synonyms of inhumanity

inhumanity

noun

ˌin-(ˌ)hyü-ˈma-nə-tē 

as in cruelty

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

man's inhumanity to man has been a recurring theme in human history

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of inhumanity

The long descriptions of violence, hatred, and inhumanity feel overwhelming. —Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024

But this is a movie that places a solid emphasis on the second word over the first, and makes a case that incarceration is not an excuse for indignity or inhumanity. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024

In that moment, Giamatti captures all the horrifyingly businesslike inhumanity of slavery — unspeakable cruelty draped in southern manners and a huckster’s showroom civility. 12. —A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024

The man talks about the calm environs as necessary to counter the war’s fundamental inhumanity, but Rosie protests that interjecting a measure of luxury into that pattern of barbarism is like interrupting Gene Krupa in the middle of a drum solo. —Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024