noun
Meaning 1
The lack of compassion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inhumanity
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noun
Meaning 2
An inhuman act.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an act of atrocious cruelty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: atrocity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cruelty, inhuman treatment
Narrower terms: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery, outrage, enormity
noun
Meaning 4
the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: inhumaneness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness, bestiality, mercilessness, unmercifulness
History
Etymology
From Middle French inhumanité, from Latin inhumanitas, equivalent to inhuman + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: inhumanitat — lack of compassion
- French: inhumanité — lack of compassion
- German: Unmenschlichkeit — lack of compassion
- German: Inhumanität — lack of compassion
- Hindi: अमानवीयता (amānvīytā) — lack of compassion
- Kazakh: адамгершіліксіздік (adamgerşılıksızdık) — lack of compassion
- Old English: unmennisċlīcnes — lack of compassion
- Portuguese: desumanidade — lack of compassion
- Romanian: neomenie — lack of compassion
- Romanian: neumanitate — lack of compassion
- Spanish: crueldad — lack of compassion
- Spanish: inhumanidad — lack of compassion
- Swahili: unyama — lack of compassion
- German: Unmenschlichkeit — inhuman act
- German: Inhumanität — inhuman act
- Hindi: अमानवीयता (amānvīytā) — inhuman act
- Kazakh: адамгершіліксіздік (adamgerşılıksızdık) — inhuman act
- Portuguese: desumanidade — inhuman act
- Romanian: neomenie — inhuman act
- Spanish: crueldad — inhuman act