English → Latin
“inhumanity” in Latin
inhūmānitāsinhumanity; barbarity, savagery; surliness, churlishnessimmānitāsimmensity, vastness, excess; monstrousness, enormity, fierceness, cruelty, barbarism, savageness, inhumanity, frightfulncrūdēlitāscruelty, severity
The English word inhumanity itself goes back to Latin hūmānus, through inhumanitas.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
inhumanity
inhumanitas: immanitas (opposed to humanitas, Cic., Deiot., 12, 32): crudelitas. (The words are found in this connection and order.) crudelitas inhumanitasque. Such barbarous inhumanity, tam crudelis, tam immoderata inhumanitas (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for inhumanity?
- The usual Latin words for “inhumanity” are inhūmānitās, immānitās, crūdēlitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.