inhumanityn.
/ɪnhjuːˈmanɪti/ 1.
a. The quality of being inhuman or inhumane; want of human feeling and compassion; brutality, barbarous cruelty.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun]
rethenesseOE
grimcundleȝcc1175
fellhead1340
ferteec1380
fiercenessc1384
savagenessa1400
grimliness14..
fellnessc1410
bestialitya1413
fierceheadc1440
cruelness?a1475
inhumanity1477
bremeness?1529
fury1534
tigerness1535
bruteness1538
immanity1539
wolvishness?1548
ferity?c1550
brutishness1567
truculency1569
Phalarism1581
ferocity1606
savagerya1616
brutality1633
inhumanness1649
wolfishness1676
boarishness1682
brutism1687
truculence1727
ferociousness1766
bestialism1824
tigerhood1846
Calibanism1859
unhumanness1885
inhumanism1907
Hunnishness1914
the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [noun]
unpiteousnessc1400
unruthc1425
unpity1447
inhumanity1477
unpitifulness1526
incompassionateness1621
incompassion1627
pitilessness1682
ruthlessness1777
dispiteousness1861
uncompassionateness1862
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > inhuman
inhumanity1477
bruteness1538
immanity1539
Phalarism1581
brutality1633
inhumanness1649
brutalism1803
unhumanness1885
inhumanism1907
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 30 I shall kepe the Ryght well..for to falle in suche Inhumanyte or furour.
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. M2 What inhumanite suffers that I see the liffinge..and that I lette [thee] be taken awaie to..deathe?
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 313 Hardnesse, inhumanitie, crueltie, and all kinde of barbarousnesse.
1675 E. Cocker Morals 55 T' insult, or exult over Misery, Shews baseness mixt with inhumanity.
1786 R. Burns Poems 163 Man's inhumanity to Man Makes countless thousands mourn!
1838 J. Martin Rem. & Serm. v. 134 Inhumanity to any animal..is manifestly inconsistent with the great law.
1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter I. 17 ‘And you would see a fellow creature perish’, cried Haggard, horrified at this inhumanity.
b. With an and plural. An instance of this; an inhuman or cruel deed.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > inhuman > act or instance of
inhumanity1647
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 15 What an Inhumanity it is, to deprive parents of that comfort.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 332 All the inhumanities whereinto we have most imprudently hurryed you.
1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 6 550 Despots are not always obeyed when they command inhumanities.
1893 Duke of Argyll Unseen Found. Society vii. 217 The grosser inhumanities of the past.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun]
uncourtesyc1380
undebonairtya1400
rudessec1415
ruditya1450
plainness1465
ingratitude1477
ingratuity1528
uncourteousness1530
rudeness?1533
discourtesy1555
inhumanity1557
unrudeness?1562
incivility1612
discourtship1616
unpoliteness1693
discourteousness1727
impolitenessa1773
ungraciousness1836
rudery1869
1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 339 Thy felowes salute In token of loue, Lest of inhumanitie they shall thee reproue.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 523 It were inhumanitie in us, not to acknowledge a beholdingnesse to them.
1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη (1824) vii. 48 The rudenesse of those who must make up their want of justice, with inhumanity, and impudence.
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