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Mercilessness

noun
1.
Feelings of extreme heartlessness.  Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness.
2.
Inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving.  Synonym: unmercifulness.





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"Mercilessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... differentiated from the personality. The consciousness of being merely the representative of superindividual claims—that is, of fighting not for self but only for the thing itself—may lend to the struggle a radicalism and mercilessness which have their analogy in the total conduct of many very unselfish and high-minded men. Because they grant themselves no consideration, they likewise have none for others and hold themselves entirely justified in sacrificing everybody else ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park


Words linked to "Mercilessness" :   inhumaneness, merciless, inhumanity, hardheartedness, relentlessness, heartlessness, coldheartedness, inexorability, inexorableness, mercifulness


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