inhumanity

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others
    an act of atrocious cruelty

Word Origin

inhumanity (n.)
late 15c., from French inhumanité (14c.) or directly from Latin inhumanitatem (nominative inhumanitas) "inhuman conduct, savageness," noun of quality from inhumanus (see inhuman). And Man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn,-- Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! [Robert Burns, "Man was Made to Mourn," 1784]

Antonym

Example

1. It 's more about sadness and loneliness than about cruelty or inhumanity .
2. About the horrors and the inhumanity .
3. Violence and massacres : between a criminal law of enemy and a criminal law of inhumanity
4. Hency thought he met the most inhumanity man in the world .
5. We must never again turn a blind eye when a government anywhere engages in gross inhumanity .

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