coldheartedness
Lack of compassion
Coldheartedness is a lack of sympathy, warmth, or compassion.
The word describes emotional indifference to others' suffering—not active cruelty, but an absence of feeling where feeling might be expected: The coldheartedness of her response surprised everyone who knew her.
It suggests someone unmoved by appeals to emotion or pity.
Lack of compassion or mercy
- mercilessnessAbsence of compassion or clemency
- pitilessnessTotal absence of compassion
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- inhumanityExtreme cruelty toward others
malice · viciousness · savagery · sadism · malevolence · harshness · spitefulness · barbarity
Lacking emotional concern
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- unmovedNot stirred physically/emotionally
unconcerned · dispassionate · emotionless · insensitive · aloof · numb · impassive · unresponsive
ruthlessness
Lack of compassion or mercy
- mercilessnessAbsence of compassion or clemency
- pitilessnessTotal absence of compassion
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
inhumanity · malice · viciousness · savagery · sadism · malevolence · harshness · spitefulness · barbarity · remorselessness
uncaring
Lacking emotional concern
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
unmoved · unconcerned · dispassionate · emotionless · insensitive · aloof · numb · impassive · unresponsive · disinterested
- Heart compoundswarmhearted, kindhearted, wholehearted, halfhearted, lighthearted
- coldnesschill, freeze, freezing, coolness, frigidity
coldheartednesswarmheartedness
Sincere affection toward others
warm-heartedness · tenderness · warmth · softheartedness · gentleness
coldheartednesskindness
Considerate, caring disposition
benevolence · compassion · humaneness · humanity · charity
coldheartednesscompassion
Concern for others' distress
sympathy · empathy · pity · fellow feeling · humaneness
cold, heart, hearted, heartlessness, coldhearted, cold-hearted, unfeelingness, cold-heartedness, coldheartedly