cruelties
Acts of malice
Cruelties are acts of deliberate harm or indifference to suffering.
The word often appears where a single instance wouldn't capture the scope: the cruelties of war, the petty cruelties of childhood.
It can also name systemic brutality: the cruelties of the slave trade.
Where cruelty names the quality, cruelties names its manifestations.
Cruel emotional indifference
- heartlessnessLack of compassion
- mercilessnessAbsence of compassion or clemency
- pitilessnessTotal absence of compassion
- ruthlessnessLack of compassion or mercy
cold-bloodedness · sadism · malice · malevolence · viciousness · brutality · inhumanity · savagery
Extremely cruel acts
- brutalitiesActs of savage violence
- abusesMisuses or mistreats
- tormentsCauses severe distress
- persecutionsHostile treatment of groups
tortures · barbarities · savageries · outrages · horrors · violations · mistreatments · maltreatments
callousness
Cruel emotional indifference
- heartlessnessLack of compassion
- mercilessnessAbsence of compassion or clemency
- pitilessnessTotal absence of compassion
ruthlessness · cold-bloodedness · sadism · malice · malevolence · viciousness · brutality · inhumanity · savagery · ferocity
atrocities
Extremely cruel acts
- brutalitiesActs of savage violence
- abusesMisuses or mistreats
- tormentsCauses severe distress
persecutions · tortures · barbarities · savageries · outrages · horrors · violations · mistreatments · maltreatments · injustices
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
misery · agony · trauma · grief · distress · hardship · affliction · woe · sorrow · heartache
crueltieskindnesses
Benevolent acts toward others
mercies · compassions · charities · benevolences · tendernesses
crueltiescompassion
Concern for others' distress
mercy · kindness · benevolence · humaneness · gentleness
crueltiesmercies
Acts of forgiveness
compassions · kindnesses · benevolences · sympathies · tendernesses