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cruelty

positive pleasure or indifference in inflicting suffering
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cruelty

Summary

cruelty is a vice[1]. cruelty draws 362 Wikipedia views per month (vice category, ranking #5 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • cruelty's instance of is recorded as vice[3].
  • cruelty's physically interacts with is recorded as Anger of God in Islam[4].
  • cruelty's said to be the same as is recorded as sadism[5].
  • cruelty is the opposite of mercy[6].
  • cruelty is the opposite of kindness[7].
  • cruelty's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cruelty[8].
  • cruelty's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • cruelty's different from is recorded as Q19438054[10].

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Definition and Type

cruelty's instance of is recorded as vice[3]. Recorded opposite of include mercy[6] and kindness[7].

Why It Matters

cruelty draws 362 Wikipedia views per month (vice category, ranking #5 of 8).[2] cruelty has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] cruelty is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → sadism
    Opposite of → mercy, kindness
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → vice
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 22503, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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