English noun: mercilessness | |||
1. | mercilessness (feeling) feelings of extreme heartlessness | ||
Synonyms | cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | coldheartedness, hardheartedness, heartlessness | ||
2. | mercilessness (attribute) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | ||
Synonyms | unmercifulness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | inhumaneness, inhumanity | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | inexorability, inexorableness, pitilessness, relentlessness, ruthlessness | ||
Antonyms | mercifulness, mercy | ||