unkindness

adjective, un·kind·er, un·kind·est.

1. lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.

adjective

1. lacking kindness; unsympathetic or cruel
2. archaic, or dialect
   1. (of weather) unpleasant
   2. (of soil) hard to cultivate

adj.early 13c. (implied in unkindly), “strange, foreign, unnatural,” from un- (1) “not” + kind (adj.). Meaning “lacking in kindness” is recorded from mid-14c. Related: Unkindly; unkindness.