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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartlessness

Heartless \Heart"less\, a.

  1. Without a heart.

    You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom.
    --J. Webster.

  2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despondent.

    Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.
    --Dryden.

    Heartless and melancholy.
    --W. Irwing.

  3. Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. ``The heartless parasites.''
    --Byron. -- Heart"less*ly, adv. -- Heart"less*ness, n.

Wiktionary
heartlessness

n. the characteristic of being heartless

WordNet
heartlessness

n. an absence of concern for the welfare of others [syn: coldheartedness, hardheartedness]

Usage examples of "heartlessness".

With a heartlessness at which I still shudder the creature used me as a bridge, and stepped across, dryfoot, on my back.

My love decried my heartlessness, my hate reviled me, that I dealt so lightly with my enemy.

Entreri epitomized the tenets of drow society, the selfish heartlessness that had driven Drizzt from the bowels of the world in outrage.

My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent.