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All abusiveness synonyms

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noun abusiveness

  • misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
  • brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
  • dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
  • maltreatment — to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse: to maltreat a prisoner.
  • cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
  • despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
  • domination — an act or instance of dominating.
  • abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
  • suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
  • injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
  • control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
  • compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
  • force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
  • severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
  • autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
  • fascism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
  • harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
  • calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
  • torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
  • conquering — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
  • injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
  • hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
  • subjection — the act of subjecting.
  • rudeness — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
  • unpleasantness — the quality or state of being unpleasant.
  • impoliteness — not polite or courteous; discourteous; rude: an impolite reply.
  • nastier — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
  • vulgarity — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
  • offensiveness — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
  • hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
  • iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.
  • martial law — the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
  • forcible — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
  • subduing — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
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