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Definition of Cruelty
1. Noun. A cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering.
Generic synonyms: Abuse, Ill-treatment, Ill-usage, Maltreatment
Specialized synonyms: Impalement, Atrocity, Inhumanity
2. Noun. Feelings of extreme heartlessness.
Generic synonyms: Coldheartedness, Hardheartedness, Heartlessness
Derivative terms: Merciless, Pitiless, Ruthless
3. Noun. The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance.
Specialized synonyms: Brutality, Ferociousness, Savagery, Viciousness, Murderousness
Generic synonyms: Malevolence, Malevolency, Malice
Derivative terms: Cruel, Harsh
Definition of Cruelty
1. n. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.
Definition of Cruelty
1. Noun. an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering. ¹
2. Noun. a cruel act ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cruelty
1. a cruel act [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cruelty
Literary usage of Cruelty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1883)
"cruelty to children produces mental and physical disease, and the prevention of
such cruelty is a matter, therefore, of grave public importance. ..."
2. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1877)
"IVEN, with some corrections, from an old black letter copy, intitled, Barbara
Allen's cruelty, or the young man's tragedy. ~[It1s™not clear why Percy ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"cruelty AND PITY IN WOMAN. cruelty. FENCER says* that among savage nations the
women are as perverse as the men, and that if they do not work ..."
4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"THEIR cruelty TOWARDS THE HELOTS. LYCURGUS would be utterly inexcusable, if he
gave occasion, as he is accused of having done, for all the rigour and ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"Thou hast drawn together been akin to those which—as may all the far-stretched
greatness, all the have occurred to them—their own pride, cruelty, ..."
6. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to by Henry Hallam (1876)
"Its scope was to palliate the imputation of excessive cruelty with which Europe
... This snows how anxious the queer, was to repel the charges of cruelty, ..."
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