Anger vs Cruelty - What's the difference?
anger | cruelty |
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
To become angry.
(uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.
(countable) a cruel act
As nouns the difference between anger and cruelty
is that anger is a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm while cruelty is an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.As a verb anger
is to cause such a feeling of antagonism.anger
English
(wikipedia anger)Noun
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism) * See alsoDerived terms
() * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in angerVerb
(en verb)- Don't anger me.
- You anger too easily.