barbarity

barbarity
    n 1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn:
         {atrocity}, {atrociousness}, {barbarity}, {barbarousness},
         {heinousness}]
    2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: {brutality}, {barbarity},
       {barbarism}, {savagery}]
    

Barbarity \Bar*bar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Barbarities}. [From
   {Barbarous}.]
   1. The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
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   2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
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            Treating Christians with a barbarity which would
            have shocked the very Moslem.         --Macaulay.
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   3. A barbarous or cruel act.
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   4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] --Swift.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "barbarity":
      Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, animality, atrociousness,
      atrocity, barbarism, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality,
      bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness,
      bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism,
      cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness,
      ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness,
      heartlessness, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility,
      inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity,
      mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, philistinism,
      pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism,
      sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, severity,
      sharpness, terrorism, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness,
      uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness,
      ungentleness, unrefinement, vandalism, vehemence, venom,
      viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness