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Answer for the clue "The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane ", 13 letters:
atrociousness

Word definitions for atrociousness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity , barbarity , barbarousness , heinousness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state of being atrocious

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
atrociousness \atrociousness\ n. 1. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane. Syn: atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness.

Usage examples of atrociousness.

Amongst ourselves, some have been guilty of that atrociousness, unknown to the Egyptian and Grecian superstitions, of declaiming in express terms, against morality.

And the very atrociousness of the stories would prevent their being believed.

Kayla was feeding not only for her own existence, or through her own atrociousness, but for the nourishment for her only child.

While they were absent, Mybaloë told me how warning of the plan to poison me had been brought to her by another of Mergawe's friends, who had recoiled at the final hour from the atrociousness and audacity of such a design.