cruelty

Synonyms

atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness;

Antonyms

benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness;

Near Antonyms

tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth;

charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity;

Related Words

hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness;

ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness;

bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity;

cattiness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness;

hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness;