unfeelingness

noun

as in inhumanness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfeelingness
  1. ruthlessness
  2. cruelty
  3. mercilessness
  4. inhumanity
  5. barbarity
  6. sadism
  7. savagery
  8. heartlessness
Noun
  • The danger occurs if that ruthlessness veers into institutional coldness.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • But this time, the Players entered the palace fully aware of the format’s twists and traps, armed with strategies, stronger instincts, and a ruthlessness that caught me off guard.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of ruthlessness
Noun
  • In late 2024, Spitze pleaded guilty to several charges related to child pornography and animal cruelty, and had been awaiting sentencing since then.
    — Mike Levine, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Brown is charged with two counts of kidnapping and two counts of first-degree cruelty to children.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • And though Din Djarian has a touch of revenge-thriller mercilessness about him, that’s more than offset by the fact that his apprentice and symbolic son is Grogu, an infant member of the same humanoid-alien species as Yoda.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2026
Definition of mercilessness
Noun
  • This is pure hatred, and condemning this kind of inhumanity shouldn’t be hard.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2026
  • Their willingness to film their inhumanity echoed the Nazis of the Third Reich, who likewise filmed their mass atrocities.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026
Definition of inhumanity
Noun
  • 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
  • The barbarity of the institution, meanwhile, is self-evident—but rarely does an author present its abuses so powerfully and vividly.
    — The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • This wouldn’t be a Reacher adventure without a soupçon of sadism.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Chiarella takes time between bouts of danger to show affection and intimacy that, in defiance of teen-slasher formula, isn’t immediately penalized with sadism.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
Definition of sadism
Noun
  • This savagery can last up to a week before the mature larvae fall to the ground.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • While our money would be on The Last Son of Krypton in a main card matchup, Lobo fights dirty with a level of primal savagery that just might put the Big Blue Boy Scout and his cousin down for a few rounds.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 6 June 2026
Definition of savagery
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
Definition of heartlessness
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“Unfeelingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfeelingness. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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