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Cruelty vs Wretchedness - What's the difference?

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Cruelty is a related term of wretchedness.


As nouns the difference between cruelty and wretchedness

is that cruelty is (uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering while wretchedness is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.

cruelty

English

Alternative forms

* cruellty (obsolete) * cruelltie (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.
  • (countable) a cruel act

    • Anagrams

    * cutlery

    wretchedness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 3
    • She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
  • A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish.