Meaning of BARBARITY
| Pronunciation: | | bâr'baritee
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- [n] a brutal barbarous savage act
- [n] the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
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| | Synonyms: | | atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutality, heinousness, savagery |
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| | See Also: | | atrocity, inhumaneness, inhumanity, inhumanity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bar*bar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Barbarities}. [From
{Barbarous}.]
The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
Treating Christians with a barbarity which would
have shocked the very Moslem. --Macaulay.
3. A barbarous or cruel act.
4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] --Swift.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Gothicism, harshness, heartlessness, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, Neanderthalism, 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 |
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