inhumanity

Other forms of inhumanity

plural

inhumanities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inhumanity

What does inhumanity mean?

inhumanity means "the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inhumanity?

inhumanity has 5 syllables: in-hu-man-i-ty. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˌɪnhjuˈmænəti/.

What is another word for inhumanity?

Close synonyms include inhumaneness, atrocity. 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 inhumanity a common word?

inhumanity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.