inhumanity

1. 1.

   the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others

   Synonymsinhumaneness

   Broaderquality

   Narroweratrocitybestialitymercilessness
2. 2.

   an act of atrocious cruelty

   Synonymsatrocity

   Broadercruelty

   Narrowerbrutalityoutrageenormity

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.