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单词 inhumanity
释义

inhumanity

/ɪnhjʊˈmanɪti /
noun (plural inhumanities) [mass noun]
Extremely cruel and brutal behaviour: man’s inhumanity to man [count noun]: an elaborate review of man’s inhumanities...
  • There are no precedents for what is the most public act of inhumanity in the world's history, so schools have largely been left to get by on a wing and a lot of prayers.
  • The positive is that there's less disorder and inhumanity which would have gone on in Bosnia or Kosovo.
  • I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.

Synonyms

cruelty, harshness, brutality, callousness, sadism, severity, savagery, viciousness, barbarity, barbarism;
bestiality, monstrousness, fiendishness, evil, evilness, wickedness, heinousness;
mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, remorselessness, cold-bloodedness, heartlessness, hard-heartedness, stone-heartedness, unforgivingness;
unkindness, unkindliness, inconsiderateness, uncaringness, lack of compassion, lack of feeling, lack of sympathy
British informal, dated beastliness
archaic dastardliness
rare egregiousness, flagitiousness

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French inhumanite or Latin inhumanitas, from inhumanus 'inhuman'.

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