cruelness

Questions about cruelness

What does cruelness mean?

cruelness means "the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance".

How many syllables are in cruelness?

cruelness has 2 syllables: cruel-ness. The stress falls on "cruel".

What is another word for cruelness?

Close synonyms include cruelty, harshness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cruelness a common word?

cruelness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.