cruel-heartedness en · NOUN
Etymology
From cruel-hearted + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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:
Forms
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