cruel-heartedness
See also: cruelheartedness
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cruel-hearted + -ness.
Noun
[edit]cruel-heartedness (uncountable)
- The quality of being cruel-hearted; lack of compassion and kindness.
- 1855, Herman Melville, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids:
- More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy.