Cruel vs. Cruelness: What's the Difference?

Cruel and Cruelness Definitions
Cruel
Disposed to inflict pain or suffering
A cruel tyrant.
Cruelness
Disposed to inflict pain or suffering
A cruel tyrant.
Cruel
Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress
Cruel treatment.
A cruel remark.
Cruelness
Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress
Cruel treatment.
A cruel remark.
Cruel
Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
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Cruelness
The state of being cruel; cruelty
Cruel
Harsh; severe.
Cruelness
Cruelty.
Cruel
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
Cruelness
The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
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Cruel
(nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
Cruel
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
Cruel
To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
Cruel
See Crewel.
Cruel
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy.
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Cruel
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Cruel wars, wasting the earth.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel.
Cruel
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
Cruel
Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
Cruel
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
A barbarous crime
Brutal beatings
Cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
A savage slap
Vicious kicks
Cruel
(of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain;
Brutal instruments of torture
Cruel weapons of war
Cruel
Used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering;
Brutal weather
Northern winters can be cruel
A cruel world
A harsh climate
A rigorous climate
Unkind winters