As nouns the difference between cruelty and fellness
is that
cruelty is (uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering while
fellness is the state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
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
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fellness English
Noun
(-)
The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
*:For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...].
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