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Showing words for CRUELTY using the English dictionary
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Definitions for Cruelty
[1] the state or quality of being cruel.
[2] cruel disposition or conduct.
[3] a cruel act.
[4] Law . conduct by a spouse that causes grievous bodily harm or mental suffering.
[5] deliberate infliction of pain or suffering
[6] the quality or characteristic of being cruel
[7] a cruel action
[8] law conduct that causes danger to life or limb or a threat to bodily or mental health, on proof of which a decree of divorce may be granted
Words related to Cruelty
savagery, torture, inhumanity, malice, barbarity, persecution, barbarism, bestiality, rancor, despotism, sadism, wickedness, severity, spite, animality, fierceness, venom, depravity, ferocity, insensibility
Words nearby Cruelty
cruel, cruel and unusual punishment, cruel to be kind, cruelhearted, cruels, cruelty, cruelty-free, cruet, cruft, cruikshank, cruise
Origin of Cruelty
1175–1225; Middle English cruelte < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin crūdēlitāt- (stem of crūdēlitās ). See cruel, -ity
Other words from Cruelty
an·ti·cru·el·ty , adjective
self-cru·el·ty , noun, plural self·-cru·el·ties.
Synonyms for Cruelty
barbarism, barbarity, inhumanity, malice, persecution, savagery, torture, animality, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fierceness, heartlessness, insensibility, insensitiveness, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, severity, spite, spitefulness, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness, brutishness, fiendishness, hard-heartedness