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All callousness synonyms

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noun callousness

  • rudeness β€” discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
  • brutality β€” Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
  • savagery β€” an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
  • torture β€” the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
  • inhumanity β€” the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.
  • malice β€” desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
  • barbarity β€” If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
  • persecution β€” the act of persecuting.
  • barbarism β€” If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
  • negligence β€” the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
  • disdain β€” to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
  • carelessness β€” not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
  • inattention β€” lack of attention; negligence.
  • apathy β€” You can use apathy to talk about someone's state of mind if you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about anything.
  • lack β€” something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
  • nonchalance β€” the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness.
  • alienation β€” a turning away; estrangement
  • disinterest β€” absence of interest; indifference.
  • disregard β€” to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • inertia β€” inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
  • insensitivity β€” deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
  • brutality β€” Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
  • cruelty β€” Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
  • atrocity β€” An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
  • roughness β€” having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
  • ribaldry β€” ribald character, as of language; scurrility.
  • smutty β€” soiled with smut; grimy.
  • indelicacy β€” the quality or condition of being indelicate.
  • unevenness β€” not level or flat; rough; rugged: The wheels bumped and jolted over the uneven surface.
  • bawdiness β€” indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
  • crudity β€” the condition or quality of being crude
  • crass β€” Crass behaviour is stupid and does not show consideration for other people.
  • boorishness β€” of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • offensiveness β€” causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
  • uncouth β€” awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly: uncouth behavior; an uncouth relative who embarrasses the family.
  • bestiality β€” Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
  • rancor β€” bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
  • despotism β€” Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
  • sadism β€” Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others. Compare masochism.
  • wickedness β€” the quality or state of being wicked.
  • severity β€” harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
  • spite β€” a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
  • animality β€” the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
  • fierceness β€” menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
  • venom β€” the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
  • depravity β€” Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
  • ferocity β€” a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
  • vicious β€” addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
  • insensibility β€” incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
  • malignity β€” the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
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