cruelness

English

Etymology

From Middle English cruelnesse; equivalent to cruel +‎ -ness.

Noun

cruelness (usually uncountable, plural cruelnesses)

  1. The state of being cruel; cruelty.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 259:
      ‘Sea! You listening to me at this moment I am speaking to you? You are full of cruelness, you are like women, you sea! Have you finished with me yet or what?’
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