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Answer for the clue "Feelings of extreme heartlessness ", 12 letters:
pitilessness

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. feelings of extreme heartlessness [syn: cruelty , mercilessness , ruthlessness ] mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity [syn: ruthlessness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being pitiless

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitiless \Pit"i*less\, a. Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements. Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition. [1913 Webster] -- Pit"i*less*ly , adv. -- Pit"i*less*ness , n.

Usage examples of pitilessness.

Unlike too, of course, but it is the pitilessness common to both extremes that shows most strongly in an old, wrinkled visage.

For all the savagery of the Holy Inquisition and the pitilessness with which the hidalgos enforced the expulsion, Spain and Portugal's Sephardim would never be able to forget Iberia, the sun-drenched land they had come to love, spending centuries helping to build, convinced that Jews had finally found a place of welcome and refuge.