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CRUELNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

Synonyms:

cruelness; cruelty; harshness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("cruelness" is a kind of...):

malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cruelness"):

brutality; ferociousness; savagery; viciousness (the trait of extreme cruelty)

murderousness (cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder)

Derivation:

cruel ((of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)

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