Synonyms of heartlessness

heartlessness

noun

as in cruelty

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

the gung ho heartlessness with which the secret police tortured prisoners was beyond belief

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cruelty
• brutality
• atrocity
• inhumanity
• savagery
• barbarity
• sadism
• cruelness
• savageness
• viciousness
• murderousness
• fiendishness
• truculence
• ruthlessness
• barbarousness
• wantonness
• inhumanness
• mercilessness
• atrociousness
• pitilessness
• meanness
• ferocity
• oppressiveness
• grimness
• hard-heartedness
• ferociousness
• bloodthirstiness
• malevolence
• spitefulness
• fierceness
• maliciousness
• hatefulness
• malignity
• bloodlust
• unfeelingness
• sanguinity
• harshness
• heavy-handedness
• sanguineness
• nastiness
• cattiness
• despitefulness
• fellness
• hardhandedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sympathy
• compassion
• kindness
• humanity
• humaneness
• benignity
• tenderness
• warmth
• tenderheartedness
• kindheartedness
• good-heartedness
• warmness
• pity
• mercy
• leniency
• clemency
• warmheartedness
• mercifulness
• charitableness