Synonyms for inhumanity
ˌɪn hyuˈmæn ɪ ti; often -yu-in·hu·man·i·ty

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1. inhumanity

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness

   Antonyms:
   almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, generosity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness

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1. inhumaneness, inhumanitynoun

   the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others

   Synonyms:
   inhumaneness, atrocity

2. atrocity, inhumanitynoun

   an act of atrocious cruelty

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, inhumaneness, heinousness, atrocity, barbarousness, atrociousness

Matched Categories

1. • Cruelty
   • Quality

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1. inhumanitynoun

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, savageness, cruelty, ferocity

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1. inhumanitynoun

   Synonyms:
   cruelty, brutality, barbarity, mercilessness

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1. List of paraphrases for "inhumanity":

   cruelty, barbarity, inhuman

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How to use inhumanity in a sentence?

1. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf:

   Regrettably, the inhumanity of rape is still being perpetrated ... this wickedness must be brought to an end.

2. Richard von Weizscker:

   Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

3. Craig Haney:

   I think the cost of solitary confinement is now being critically examined and rethought, and prison systems are beginning to ask themselves whether this is worth it, and whether or not it does not create more harm than good, courts are pushing them to consider the inhumanity of the practice, as well.

4. Douglas Kennedy:

   Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man, we believe in the gentleness that spared his life, but in taming his act of violence, he should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.

5. George Takei:

   What we have is this endless cycle, the repetition of this kind of horror, injustice being inflicted on minority people, and we see it again today on our southern borders, but we've reached a new, grotesque low. We were together with our parents. Our families were intact. What we see today now is this incredible inhumanity of children being torn away from their parents.