noun
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lack of humane qualities
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an inhumane act, decision, etc
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of inhumanity
1470–80; earlier inhumanite < Latin inhūmānitās. See inhuman, -ity
Example Sentences
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"It's important to participate in these things and shine a light on injustice, shine a light on inhumanity, shine a light on suffering," DiDonato said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
As the foundation’s president, Elizabeth Alexander, puts it: “We support artists, scholars, and thinkers,” both inside and outside prison, “who are countering the inhumanity of incarceration and the broader criminal legal system.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
“I think the first family that I heard about where I recognized the cruelty and the inhumanity of it all was the Gonzalez family,” he said, referring to Quintino’s parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
As he struggled with a system, which aimed to preserve secrecy and deepen separation, he didn’t know about a deathly further dimension to the institutional inhumanity.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
There are moments of tender resplendence that are as piercing as the cruelty — compassion that counterbalances the inhumanities Elwood faces.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
Fragmented senses of continuity and context have been powerful conditions to allow the multiple, ongoing crises and inhumanities we witness and experience every day.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2023
In one clip, Keith LaMar speaks about feeling victorious simply for having maintained his “sweetness” — a personal quality that’s obvious in his voice — despite the inhumanities of living in solitary confinement for decades.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
He has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at man's inhumanities, and a similar range of techniques, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since death ends all of consciousness, the most inhuman of all inhumanities and the most immoral of all immoralities is the shortening of human life; and next to it is the diminishing of its happiness.
From Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown
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