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Hardheartedness
[hahrd-hahr-tid] 
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cruelty
[kroo-uhl-tee]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | hardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | rigidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | rigorousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | savagery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelty |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutality, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, truculency, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | sternness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | strictness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | stringency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | toughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, unkindness |
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