INHUMANENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inhumaneness mean? 

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

1. the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHUMANENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inhumaneness; inhumanity

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

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

atrociousness; atrocity; barbarity; barbarousness; heinousness (the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane)

bestiality (the stupid brutal quality of a beast)

mercilessness; unmercifulness (inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving)

Antonym:

humaneness (the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals))

Derivation:

inhumane (lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion)