All mercilessness synonyms

noun mercilessness

• brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
• 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.
• 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.
• barbarity — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
• persecution — the act of persecuting.
• 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.
• brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
• bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
• rancor — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
• sadism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others. Compare masochism.
• wickedness — the quality or state of being wicked.
• severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
• spite — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
• animality — the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
• fierceness — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
• 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.
• depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
• ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
• vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
• insensibility — incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
• malignity — the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
• coarseness — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
• truculence — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
• spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
• coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
• callousness — made hard; hardened.
• insensitive — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
• unfeeling — not feeling; devoid of feeling; insensible or insensate.
• murderous — of the nature of or involving murder: a murderous deed.
• unkindness — lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
• heartless — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
• 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.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• savage — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
• masochism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering physical pain or humiliation.
• truculency — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
• grudge — a feeling of ill will or resentment: to hold a grudge against a former opponent.
• vengefulness — desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
• resentment — the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult.
• cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• retaliation — the act of retaliating; return of like for like; reprisal.
• revenge — to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit: He revenged his murdered brother.
• harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
• hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
• pitiless — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
• cold-blooded — Someone who is cold-blooded does not show any pity or emotion.
• nastier — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.