inhumanity

[ in-hyoo-man-i-tee or, often, -yoo- ]

/ ˌɪn hyuˈmæn ɪ ti or, often, -yu- /

the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.

an inhuman or inhumane act.

Origin of inhumanity

1470–80; earlier inhumanite < Latin inhūmānitās. See inhuman, -ity

1 savagery, brutality, brutishness.

Another 10 slaves threw themselves overboard in a display of defiance at the inhumanity.

The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind |Brin-Jonathan Butler |December 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Yet here we are, dispensing another dollop of inhumanity to some of the most troubled and despised people in America.

The GOP’s Hidden Ban on Prison Abortions |Harold Pollack |December 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
She opted to stay, believing her exit would be a victory for the authors of the inhumanity she dedicated her life to exposing.

Edward Snowden Should End His Cold War Tour, Come Home to America |Jelani Cobb |June 25, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
This is a level of inhumanity that frankly boggles my mind and makes me ill.

On African Refugees and Jewish Heartlessness |Emily L. Hauser |September 21, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

And to the extent that we in America do not call our Israeli brothers and sisters on this inhumanity, we are complicit in it.

On African Refugees and Jewish Heartlessness |Emily L. Hauser |September 21, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But it is true beyond a doubt that inhumanity which may not be described is possible at any time in any Temple house.

Lotus Buds |Amy Carmichael
You note the charge of inhumanity in the very first line, and in much subsequent press comment there was the same note.

New Worlds For Old |Herbert George Wells
He was not inhuman, and if at times he seemed so, he had ways of reconciling his inhumanity to his conscience.

Audrey Craven |May Sinclair
Its pamphlets went so far as to excoriate allied methods of warfare and to level accusations of inhumanity against the Belgians.

Woodrow Wilson and the World War |Charles Seymour
This huge lump of humanity—nay, rather of inhumanity—was worse than a schoolgirl in point of courage.

Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks |Bracebridge Hemyng

inhumanity

/ (ˌɪnhjuːˈmænɪtɪ) /

lack of humane qualities

an inhumane act, decision, etc