noun
- the quality or state of being cruel, brutal, or lacking compassion and human kindness
Usage: abstract noun; formal register
Examples
- The inhumanness of the regime shocked the international community.
- She was appalled by the inhumanness displayed toward the prisoners.
- His actions revealed a disturbing inhumanness that frightened those around him.
- The inhumanness of war is a recurring theme in literature.
- They condemned the inhumanness of the treatment inflicted on the refugees.
- The documentary exposed the inhumanness of the factory farming industry.