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cruelheartedness

cruelheartedness is the alternative form of cruel-heartedness.

Meaning of cruel-heartedness

Noun

cruel-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cruel-hearted; lack of compassion and kindness.
    • 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.1855, Herman Melville, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

Origin of cruelheartedness

From cruelhearted + -ness.

Questions about cruelheartedness

What is cruelheartedness the alternative form of?
Cruelheartedness is the alternative form of cruel-heartedness.

Words near cruelheartedness in the dictionary

  1. cruel-heartedness
  2. crueler
  3. cruelest
  4. cruelest-hearted
  5. cruelhearted
  6. cruelheartedness
  7. cruelize
  8. cruelized
  9. cruelizes
  10. cruelizing
  11. cruell

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