All hardheartedness synonyms

noun hardheartedness

• severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
• rigidity — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
• rigorous — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
• stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
• toughness — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
• brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
• barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
• barbarity — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
• inhumanity — the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.
• malice — 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.
• persecution — the act of persecuting.
• savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• animality — the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
• bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
• bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
• coarseness — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
• depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
• despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
• ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
• fierceness — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
• insensibility — incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
• insensitive — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
• malignity — the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
• masochism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering physical pain or humiliation.
• mercilessness — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
• murderous — of the nature of or involving murder: a murderous deed.
• rancor — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• sadism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others. Compare masochism.
• savage — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
• spite — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
• spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
• truculence — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
• unfeeling — not feeling; devoid of feeling; insensible or insensate.
• venom — the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
• vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
• wickedness — the quality or state of being wicked.
• brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
• fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
• truculency — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
• callousness — made hard; hardened.
• coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
• pitiless — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
• stoniness — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
• heartless — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
• insensitivity — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
• hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
• asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.