inhumanity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   lack of compassion or the quality of being cruel to other people

   The report documents the inhumanity of leaving civilians without food or shelter.

2. 2
   noun

   an individual act of extreme cruelty

   Survivors described the many inhumanities committed in the prison camp.

Borrowed through Middle French inhumanite from Latin inhumanitas, 'savagery, discourtesy, or lack of cultivation,' based on inhumanus, 'inhuman.' In English it can name either the general absence of humane feeling or a particular act that displays such cruelty.

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