heartlessness
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- noun
- /ˈhɑrtləsnəs/
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desalmado
- There is no magical point of transformation at which the trait of benevolence has abruptly flipped into being the trait of heartlessness, or vice versa.
- heartlessness and malice
- sadistic heartlessness
Like who's your anger directed at at the heartlessness of people, the ignorance of people.
- Like who's your anger directed at at the heartlessness of people, the ignorance of people.
- Is there really a value to understanding heartlessness, contempt, joylessness, cruelty, or dysregulated anger?
Examples
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His heartlessness became evident when he refused to help the struggling family next door.
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She was shocked by the heartlessness of his comments during the meeting, showing no concern for the team's morale.
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Among such people in their official capacities, heartlessness is a common frame of mind.
Academic text (2018) -
You won't find such heartlessness in Christianity, yet we are the bad guys?
Blog text (29) -
Most relevant to the present essay is evil conduct impelled by heartlessness.
Academic text (2018) -
Then there were the refinery children, who knew all the facts, functions, and names with a crude heartlessness she found embarrassing.
Fiction book (1993) -
I am proud of you, my dearest Amy; I am saddened by such heartlessness.
Blog text (1) -
Will they be living in a nation of glaring contrasts of poverty and wealth, homelessness, hopelessness, and heartlessness?
Academic text (2002) -
There in Mudear's garden, next to the marigolds and tomato plants, they talked about her lovelessness, her heartlessness, her lack of motherliness.
Fiction book (1993) -
The manager's heartlessness in cutting benefits left many employees feeling abandoned and hurt.
Synonyms
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7.4
A lack of concern for other people's feelings or suffering
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4.1
Lack of care for other people
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8.4
A complete lack of pity or kindness toward others
To not care about other people's feelings or needs
Not caring about other people
A lack of care or sympathy
Lack of pity or care for other people
A lack of pity or mercy for other people
Not feeling pity or regret for other people's suffering
Being cruel and showing little kindness
Antonyms
How Compassionate
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2.7
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1.0
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4.6
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4.1
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7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Heartlessness joins heart, the part we think of for feelings and care, and -less, which means 'without'. So it literally means 'without heart' and describes someone who has no care or kindness.