MURDEROUSNESS Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

murderousness

noun

Definition of murderousness

as in bloodthirstiness

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Recent Examples of murderousness The guy was a sleaze, but there’s a pretty big gap between sleaziness and murderousness. — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025

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Noun

The findings can’t be extrapolated to the real world — the scenarios were extreme, with the regimes often facing first strikes or annihilation — but revealed AIs’ skill at strategic reasoning, as well as a certain bloodthirstiness.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 Mar. 2026

Definition of bloodthirstiness

Noun

Dillard’s work, though not exclusively about nature, often focused on the natural world, the cruelty and beauty of both flora and fauna, narrowing in on the extremity of the biological systems surrounding us.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
They had initially been arrested two months ago on misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.

— Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of cruelty

Noun

Wolf succumbs to Shura, a demonic force in the game’s mythology that possesses those who give in to bloodlust.

— Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
These concrete monuments to American malice have been built to satisfy a xenophobic bloodlust fueled by this administration and the worst of us in society who support or ignore it.

— Nick Bhasin, Mercury News, 28 July 2026

Definition of bloodlust

Noun

Others are inclined to rank evils according to the amount of savagery evident in the perpetrator, not to the damage inflicted on the world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Despite Abby’s savagery, Hall saw a unique reflection of the character and the title killers in the series.

— William Earl, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of savagery

Noun

What wasn’t new was the continuation of the kind of barbarity that dominated conflicts of recent memory, from Cambodia to Rwanda.

— David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
The report comes as the RSF lays siege to El Obeid, where analysts say similar barbarity is imminent.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of barbarity

Noun

These young graduates start out naive about the heartlessness of the corporate world and harbor illusory hopes for success in unforgiving professions.

— George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.

— Ginny Tapley Takemori September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025

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