Synonyms for inhumanity
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Definitions
- n. 1
The lack of compassion.
Forms
- Plural
- inhumanities → barbarities, brutalities, cruelties, atrocities…
Example sentences
- cruelty The prisoners were treated with monstrous cruelty.
- brutality Mennad has never seen any atrocities or brutality.
- atrocity It is hard to believe that humans are capable of such atrocity.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inhumanity | steady | |
| cruelty | rising | |
| brutality | rising | |
| atrocity | rising | |
| barbarity | rising | |
| inhumaneness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- cruelty2
- 8 letters
- atrocity4, ferocity4
- 9 letters
- brutality4, barbarity4
- 12 letters
- inhumaneness
- 13 letters
- mercilessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cruelty2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inhumanité
- Italiano
- inumanità
- Deutsch
- Unmenschlichkeit