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savagery
Savage behavior or nature; barbarity.
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  1. Savage behavior or nature; barbarity.
  2. The condition of being savage, or wild, primitive, uncultivated, etc.
  3. Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity
barbarity
(Uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
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  1. (Uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
  2. A crude or coarse taste, manner, form, etc.
  3. Savage brutality or cruelty:
brutality
A brutal or savage act, treatment, etc.
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  1. A brutal or savage act, treatment, etc.
  2. The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
  3. The use of excessive physical force e.g. police brutality.
barbarity
(Uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
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  1. (Uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
  2. A crude or coarse taste, manner, form, etc.
  3. Savage brutality or cruelty:
bestiality
Sexual relations between a human and an animal.
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  1. Sexual relations between a human and an animal.
  2. Sexual relations between a person and an animal
  3. Conduct or an action marked by depravity or brutality.
brutality
The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
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  1. The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
  2. A brutal or savage act, treatment, etc.
  3. The use of excessive physical force e.g. police brutality.
cruelty
(Law) Willful infliction of physical pain or suffering upon a person or animal, or of mental distress upon a person
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  1. (Law) Willful infliction of physical pain or suffering upon a person or animal, or of mental distress upon a person
  2. (Uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.
  3. As a ground for divorce, the intentional and malicious infliction of physical or psychological abuse by a married person upon his or her spouse that endangers or severely impairs the spouse’s life or physical or mental well-being or creates a reasonable apprehension in the spouse’s mind of physical or mental harm. The extent of abuse that a spouse is expected to tolerate varies state to state, but a single act of cruelty is normally not enough to constitute grounds for divorce. See also abuse. As a ground for divorce, the intentional and malicious infliction of physical or psychological abuse by a married person upon his or her spouse that endangers or severely impairs the spouse’s life or physical or mental well-being or creates a reasonable apprehension in the spouse’s mind of physical or mental harm. The extent of abuse that a spouse is expected to tolerate varies state to state, but a single act of cruelty is normally not enough to constitute grounds for divorce. See also abuse.
savagery
A violent act of cruelty
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  1. A violent act of cruelty
  2. The condition of being savage, or wild, primitive, uncultivated, etc.
  3. Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity
Find another word for inhumanity. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inhumanity, like: savagery, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, evil, tyranny, barbarity, bestiality, brutality, cruelty and savagery.

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  • "I always thought Gabe's humanity made him weak.  It appears my inhumanity did me in," she mused.

  • They have (besides their purely spiritual work) opposed the sale of alcohol, denounced inhumanity from the farmers, encouraged the natives to labour and taught them mechanical arts.

  • She objected to the inhumanity of the experiment, since it was clear that the raw fooders were getting better, while the group taking hospital foods and drugs got sicker!

  • Many of Asimov's early robot short stories had Man's Inhumanity to Robot as a theme.

  • erroneous to suppose that this inhumanity was characteristic of the Carmarthenshire gentry.

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