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 | ||