HEARTLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heartlessness mean? 

• HEARTLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun HEARTLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. an absence of concern for the welfare of others

  Familiarity information: HEARTLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARTLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An absence of concern for the welfare of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

coldheartedness; hardheartedness; heartlessness

Hypernyms ("heartlessness" is a kind of...):

unconcern (a feeling of lack of concern)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heartlessness"):

cruelty; mercilessness; pitilessness; ruthlessness (feelings of extreme heartlessness)

Derivation:

heartless (lacking in feeling or pity or warmth)

 Context examples 

But it was the heartlessness of it that especially struck me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)