inhumanness
Lack of compassion
Inhumanness is the quality of lacking human compassion, warmth, or mercy.
The word describes cruelty or callousness so extreme it seems to place someone outside normal human feeling: The inhumanness of the torture shocked even hardened investigators.
It can also describe cold, mechanical qualities in systems or environments: the inhumanness of bureaucratic processing.
Savage, merciless behavior
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
- sadismPleasure from inflicting pain
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
viciousness · mercilessness · ruthlessness · ferocity · barbarity · malice · pitilessness · callousness
Quality of being unlike
- strangenessQuality of being peculiar
- foreignnessQuality of being unfamiliar
- unnaturalnessState of seeming contrived
- monstrosityHideously malformed creature
aberration · grotesqueness · freakishness · alienation · objectification · soullessness · automatism · mechanicalness
Absence of feeling
- coldnessLow temperature state
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- unconcernAbsence of worry
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
insensitivity · aloofness · dispassion · emotionlessness · impassivity · unfeelingness · heartlessness · numbness
brutality
Savage, merciless behavior
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
- sadismPleasure from inflicting pain
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
atrocity · viciousness · mercilessness · ruthlessness · ferocity · barbarity · malice · pitilessness · callousness · harshness
otherness
Quality of being unlike
- strangenessQuality of being peculiar
- foreignnessQuality of being unfamiliar
- unnaturalnessState of seeming contrived
monstrosity · aberration · grotesqueness · freakishness · alienation · objectification · soullessness · automatism · mechanicalness · lifelessness
apathy
Absence of feeling
- coldnessLow temperature state
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- unconcernAbsence of worry
callousness · insensitivity · aloofness · dispassion · emotionlessness · impassivity · unfeelingness · heartlessness · numbness · unresponsiveness
inhumannesshumaneness
Benevolent, merciful disposition
humanity · compassion · kindness · mercy · benevolence
inhumannesshumanity
People as a whole
humanness · human nature · personhood · human dignity · human spirit
human, humane, humanity, inhuman, inhumane, inhumanity, humanism, humanist, humanize