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in·hu·man·i·ty

(ĭn′hyo͞o-măn′ĭ-tē)

n. pl. in·hu·man·i·ties

1. Lack of pity or compassion.

2. An inhuman or cruel act.

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inhumanity

(ˌɪnhjuːˈmænɪtɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. lack of humane qualities

2. an inhumane act, decision, etc

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in•hu•man•i•ty

(ˌɪn hyuˈmæn ɪ ti; often -yu-)

n., pl. -ties.

1. the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.

2. an inhuman or inhumane act.

[1470–80; < Latin]

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Noun	1.	inhumanity - the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others inhumaneness quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness - the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane unmercifulness, mercilessness - inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving
	2.	inhumanity - an act of atrocious cruelty atrocity cruelty, inhuman treatment - a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering barbarism, barbarity, brutality, savagery - a brutal barbarous savage act outrage - a wantonly cruel act enormity - an act of extreme wickedness

inhumanity

noun cruelty, atrocity, brutality, ruthlessness, barbarism, viciousness, heartlessness, unkindness, brutishness, cold-bloodedness, pitilessness, cold-heartedness, hardheartedness the inhumanity of war

Quotations
"Man's inhumanity to man"
"Makes countless thousands mourn" [Robert Burns Man was Made to Mourn]
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity" [George Bernard Shaw The Devil's Disciple]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

inhumanity

noun

A cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior:

barbarity, bestiality, brutality, cruelty, savagery, truculence, truculency.

Translations

عَدَم إنْسانيَّه، وَحْشِيَّه

nelidskost

umenneskelighed

miskunnarleysi

neľudskosť

zalimlik

无人性

inhumanity

[ˌɪnhjuːˈmænɪtɪ] N → inhumanidad f, crueldad f
man's inhumanity to man → la crueldad del hombre para con sus semejantes

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

inhumanity

[ˌɪnhjʊˈmænɪti] n → inhumanité f

inhumanity

n → Unmenschlichkeit f; man’s inhumanity to man → die Unmenschlichkeit der Menschen untereinander

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

inhumanity

[ˌɪnhjuːˈmænɪtɪ] n → inumanità f inv, disumanità f inv

inhuman

(inˈhjuːmən) adjective

extremely cruel or brutal; not seeming to be human. His treatment of his children was quite inhuman.

ˌinhuˈmanity (-ˈmӕ-) noun

cruelty or lack of pity.

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You must learn the trick; you must imitate the trademarks of poverty, misery, oppression, insult, and the other several and common inhumanities that sap the manliness out of a man and make him a loyal and proper and approved subject and a satisfaction to his masters, or the very infants will know you for better than your disguise, and we shall go to pieces at the first hut we stop at.

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Ever since my high school days, decades ago, I have readily acknowledged the important fact that many Caucasian individuals neither participated in nor approved the general Euro-Caucasian inhumanity to black human beings in, for example, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda during the colonial times, crimes sometimes committed merely by failing to condemn them.HUMAN RELATIONS Yet, though important, that fact does not prevent me from naming slavery and the trade in black human beings among the inhumanities that a class of the Caucasian race has perpetrated against my people, the black race (my Nilotic people probably being the blackest human beings our planet has ever produced).

Cruelty to other races, tribes is cruelty to oneself

The first section, "Ethics," contains the chapters "On Remembering One's Own," "On Remembering Others," and "On the Inhumanities." In the first chapter, Nguyen discusses the various cemeteries, memorials, and ceremonies honoring fallen Vietnamese.