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The quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others
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inhumanity
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Inhumanity may refer to: " Man's inhumanity to man ", a phrase first documented in 1784
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Amnesty International protests against injustice and inhumanity . ▪ Reformists were appalled by the immorality and inhumanity of the slave trade. ▪ The novel focuses on the inhumanity of prisons and labour camps.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others [syn: inhumaneness ] [ant: humaneness ] an act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhumanity \In`hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. Inhumanities . [L. inhumanitas: cf. F. inhumanit['e].] The quality or state of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. --Burns.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from French inhumanité (14c.) or directly from Latin inhumanitatem (nominative inhumanitas ) "inhuman conduct, savageness," noun of quality from inhumanus (see inhuman ).\n\nAnd Man, whose heav'n-erected face \n The smiles of love adorn,-- \n ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The lack of compassion. 2 An inhuman act.
Usage examples of inhumanity.
The financial labor-exploitation of the Northern capitalists was held up as humanitarianism, and the patriarchal care of the Southern planter was branded as cruelty, inhumanity, and immorality.
I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.
I saw that I could neither avoid her nor repulse her without inhumanity, so I called to Rigerboos to come upstairs and the girl would divert us by recounting the history of her life.
This being Wednesday and his morning free from supervising the Rialtos charwomen, Grope had walked abroad to contemplate mans inhumanity to man and to think up rhymes afresh.
He had witnessed many savage and grisly deeds and much injustice and oppression, but none matched the grisliness and inhumanity of the deed that was the East End of London in the 1880s.
Helva's civilization was not without busy, do-good associations, exploring possible inhumanities to terrestrial as well as extraterrestrial citizens.
Aenea's last shared moments had been more than words and torture and pain and horror -- I had sensed her thoughts, shared her understanding of the Core's motives, of the true parasitism of the cruciform, of the cynical use of human death to tweak their neural networks, of Lourdusamy's lust for power and Mustafa's confusion and Albedo's absolute inhumanity .
He taxed the youth with shocking inhumanity, and shivered when only a sardonic laugh came in reply.
He had smelled the stink of corruption, power, inhumanity all around him and he had been sick unto death.
The very inhumanity of their enemies, their uncanniness and, above all, their unknown potentialities made it impossible for them to maintain the front they might have shown to normal dangers.
Nevertheless, his barbarous cruelty and inhumanity with infinite wickednesses do not permit him to be celebrated among the most excellent men.
By contrast with the inhumanity of that block of flats I began almost to have a kindly feeling for the faded Victorian gentility of Wilbraham Crescent.