Barbarity

//bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being barbarous; brutality uncountable
  2. 2
    a brutal barbarous savage act wordnet
  3. 3
    A barbaric act countable

    "As regards barbarities committed by the Japanese army since our war of resistance, the fall of Nanking in December 1937 is a case in point. Over 200,000 civilians were massacred within one week."

  4. 4
    the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane wordnet
  5. 5
    crudity uncountable
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  1. 6
    A crude act countable

Synonyms

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atrocitybarbarousnessbrutalityacutenessanimalityatrociousness

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"Let me therefore enter upon this noble cause with a chearfulness, grounded upon this assurance, that my adversary's cause is maintain'd by nothing but fraud, fallacy, ignorance and barbarity; whereas mine has light, truth, reason, the practice and the learning of the best ages of the world, of its side."

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