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CRUELNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cruelness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cruelness"):
brutality; ferociousness; savagery; viciousness (the trait of extreme cruelty)
murderousness (cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder)
Derivation:
cruel ((of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)
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