heartlessness
- n an absence of concern for the welfare of others
- When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable.
- Hysteria is not the only extreme that societies avoid by these dependencies, however; they avoid or at least reduce a general heartlessness and egocentricity as well.
- He lost the latter job reportedly as a result of a swinging personal life and a chilling heartlessness that earned him the nickname "the smiling cobra.