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Meaning of "mental cruelty" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MENTAL CRUELTY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MENTAL CRUELTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mental cruelty is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MENTAL CRUELTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Psychological abuse

Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse or mental abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Such abuse is often associated with situations of power imbalance, such as abusive relationships, bullying, and abuse in the workplace.

Definition of mental cruelty in the English dictionary

The definition of mental cruelty in the dictionary is behaviour that causes distress to another person but that does not involve physical assault.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MENTAL CRUELTY

mental
mental age
mental arithmetic
mental block
mental defective
mental deficiency
mental disability
mental disorder
mental handicap
mental healer
mental healing
mental health
mental health care
mental home
mental illness
mental impairment
mental lexicon
mental reservation
mental retardation
mental strain

WORDS THAT END LIKE MENTAL CRUELTY

anticruelty
child cruelty
cruelty
felty
kelty
melty
novelty
owelty
persistent cruelty
shelty
theatre of cruelty
Welty

Synonyms and antonyms of mental cruelty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mental cruelty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MENTAL CRUELTY

Find out the translation of mental cruelty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mental cruelty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mental cruelty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

精神虐待
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

crueldad mental
570 millions of speakers

English

mental cruelty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मानसिक क्रूरता
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

القسوة العقلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

моральный ущерб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

crueldade mental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মানসিক নিষ্ঠুরতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cruauté mentale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekejaman mental
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

seelische Grausamkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

精神的虐待
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정신적 학대
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kekejeman mental
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tàn ác tinh thần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மன கொடூரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मानसिक क्रूरता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Zihinsel zulüm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crudeltà mentale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

okrucieństwo psychiczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

моральні збитки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cruzime mentală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψυχική σκληρότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geestelike wreedheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

psykisk misshandel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mental grusomhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mental cruelty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MENTAL CRUELTY»

The term «mental cruelty» is normally little used and occupies the 123.903 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MENTAL CRUELTY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mental cruelty» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mental cruelty» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mental cruelty

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MENTAL CRUELTY»

Discover the use of mental cruelty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mental cruelty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mental Cruelty: A Novel for Divorced Men
Basically, what Janine's lawyer is saying is that I agree to drop my complaint about his client's ludicrous claims of mental cruelty as grounds for the divorce. Mental Cruelty! What a farce! No, better yet, what an outright lie! As I stole a glance at ...
Lee Kronert, 2013
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Surviving Your Divorce: A Guide To Canadian Family Law
mental cruelty but it was not adultery. This changed as a result of recent court decisions where judges have simply said that homosexual activity is adultery. This is a little strange from a lawyer's point of view, because adultery has a specific ...
Michael G. Cochrane, 2011
3
Clock Without Hands
Sport had been divorced by his wife for extreme mental cruelty. A family man, Malone wondered what extreme mental cruelty could be. Mrs. Lewis had got a Mexican divorce and later on she had married again. But what was that—extreme  ...
Carson McCullers, 1998
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Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian ...
On the basis of these regulations, the whole process of seeking a battered spouse waiver on the grounds of extreme mental cruelty put tremendous pressure on the abused immigrant spouse. First, she had to have access to a mental health ...
Margaret Abraham, 2000
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Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture
He thought that Shivers had a more idealistic personality, was predisposed to see what happened to him as an expression of mental cruelty, and was unable to prevent sudden outbursts of grief, anger, and protest. McClean, he said, had a ...
John Conroy, 2000
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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
A Supreme Court decision of 1933 took the liberal position that cruelty included mental (jingshenshang) cruelty (Chiu 1966: 181). As applied by the Shanghai and Beijing courts, however, the notion of mental cruelty was largely restricted to  ...
Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip C. C. Huang
7
Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction
It may even be worse than that, because physical and mental cruelty often exacerbate suffering through an exploitation of the imaginative possibilities of our human consciousness. The unusualness of a punishment is not normally considered ...
John Kleinig, 2008
8
Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England
... would not deprive a husband of his authority over his wife without specific, incontrovertible proof of cruelty.32 Vermont women who wrote desertion notices often equated intolerable severity with such mental cruelty as threats and insults.
Mary Beth Sievens, 2005
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Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love with the ...
The author of Princess Charming describes the incendiary New York Times article in which she denounced the Yankees for their poor performance and incited tremendous public backlash, a response that prompted her to follow the team throughout ...
Jane Heller, 2009
10
The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American ...
So we were left full of anxiety and wondering what was wrong. I remember seeing it in a newspaper. It said that my mother was suing my father on the grounds of mental cruelty. I was at my grandmother's house, and she saw me reading this ...
Steve Turner, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MENTAL CRUELTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mental cruelty is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Storm in a dishwasher puts marriages in peril
... of time that habits like these will be accepted as legitimate pleas for divorce, on the grounds of unreasonable conduct and mental cruelty. «the Irish News, Jul 15»
2
Refusing to celebrate Karva Chauth no ground for seeking divorce: HC
... the Karva Chauth and marriage anniversary by his wife and her family amounted to mental cruelty and had sought divorce on this ground. «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
3
Wife granted divorce from 'less qualified' hubby
She couldn't tolerate mental cruelty, financial incapability * Not necessary for her to prove multiple acts of cruelty * Her confidence was never ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
Carer stole £105000 from elderly relative to "secure inheritance"
... comment on individual cases, any abuse of older people is unacceptable, whether the abuse is neglect, financial manipulation or physical or mental cruelty. «Your Local Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Gardai question Emma Murphy's ex over attack claims
She said she had been physically assaulted and subjected to mental cruelty by her former partner whom she described as the "love of my life". «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
6
'I'd like to apologise to Emma and her family' – Man at centre of …
In the video, Emma has an obvious injury to her left eye, and tells of how she has been physically assaulted and subjected to mental cruelty by ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
7
'I need to do this to raise awareness for other women'
She reveals she had been physically assaulted and subjected to mental cruelty by her former partner whom she still describes as the "love of ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
8
Courage of abuse victim in online video is praised
The young woman has an obvious injury to her left eye, and tells of how she has been physically assaulted and subjected to mental cruelty by a ... «Herald.ie, Jul 15»
9
Published on Jul 3, 2015, 8:10 pm AST
The acute disappointment in seeing persons with less marks getting their first choice is clearly mental cruelty in the extreme. We already do not ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
10
Marriage: A license for husbands to rape their wives?
... to have sex with her husband, and divorces have been granted to husbands whose wives refuse to have sex on grounds of “mental cruelty”. «New Delhi Times, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Mental cruelty [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/mental-cruelty>. Apr 2024 ».
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