All callousness synonyms
calΒ·lous
C c 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.