Oppression vs Cruelty - What's the difference?
oppression | cruelty |
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
A feeling of being oppressed.
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, title= (uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.
(countable) a cruel act
As nouns the difference between oppression and cruelty
is that oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner while cruelty is (uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.oppression
English
Noun
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}