Meanings
nouncruel-heartedness (uncountable)
alternative cruelheartedness
- uncountableThe 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
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cruel-heartedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cruel-heartedness
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