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cruelty

positive pleasure or indifference in inflicting suffering
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Summary

cruelty is a vice[1]. cruelty draws 1,187 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's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cruelty[7].
  • cruelty's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8].
  • cruelty's different from is recorded as Q19438054[9].
  • cruelty's contains is recorded as brutality[10].

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Definition and Type

cruelty's instance of is recorded as vice[3]. cruelty is the opposite of mercy[6].

Why It Matters

cruelty draws 1,187 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 35 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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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → cruelty
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: cruelty, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923994|cruelty (#289923994)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  2. 13d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 47
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'cv', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hi', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ remove badge intentional sitelink to redirect from jawiki sitelink; sitelink points to a non-redirect page #msynbotTask10"
  3. 10w ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contains → brutality
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Contains: brutality"
  4. 11w ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → mercy
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Opposite of: kindness"
  5. 12w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 4783
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 4783, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167477341|CRUELTY (#167477341)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007270-krutost
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007270-krutost, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  7. 19w ago · Dronebogus · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → "Blasts" from The Ram's Horn (1902) (14597994538).jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: "Blasts" from The Ram's Horn (1902) (14597994538).jpg"
  8. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → sadism
    Opposite of → mercy
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → vice
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 22503, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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