cruelty | Definition of cruelty

Synonyms and Antonyms of cruelty

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

centuries after he ravaged Europe, Attila the Hun remains notorious for his cruelty

Synonyms of cruelty

atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness

Words Related to cruelty

hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness

fellness, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness

bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity

cattiness, despitefulness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness

hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness

Near Antonyms of cruelty

tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth

charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity

Antonyms of cruelty

benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness