All inhumanity synonyms

noun inhumanity

• savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
• brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
• cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• 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.
• atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
• vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
• callousness — made hard; hardened.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
• maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
• violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
• 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.
• heartless — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
• cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
• mercilessness — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
• sadism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others. Compare masochism.
• heartlessness — The characteristic of being heartless.
• atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
• brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
• cold-blooded — Someone who is cold-blooded does not show any pity or emotion.