inhumanity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

atrocity inhumaneness barbary villainy monstrosity violence evil abuse severity terrorism outrage cruelty brutality wickedness ferocity
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Antonyms

rue care aid assistance humanity consideration
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Hypernyms

quality cruelty inhuman treatment

Hyponyms

outrage brutality barbarism savagery atrocity bestiality

Phrases with the word

man's inhumanity to man

Derivatives

inhumanities

Examples

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. George Steiner

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. Alan Paton

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Man was made to Mourn. Robert Burns

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. Alexander Berkman

Close letter words and terms

inhumane treatment inhumanely inhumaneness inhumanly inhumanness inhumate