mercilessness

Noun

Meaning

inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving

feelings of extreme heartlessness

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ruthlessness cruelty pitilessness unmercifulness malice meanness violence evil spite severity hardness indifference brutality wickedness ferocity

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Antonyms

mercifulness ruth grace support care aid

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Hypernyms

inhumanity coldheartedness heartlessness hardheartedness inhumaneness

Hyponyms

ruthlessness pitilessness inexorability inexorableness relentlessness

Anagrams

crimelessness

Examples

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man,” and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man. Max Stirner

I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness. Vladimir Lenin

Close letter words and terms

merciless person merciless spider mercilessly merciness merck Merckx