Meaning of BRUTALITY
| Pronunciation: | | broo'talitee
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- [n] a brutal barbarous savage act
- [n] the trait of extreme cruelty
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| | Synonyms: | | barbarism, barbarity, ferociousness, savageness, savagery, savagery, viciousness |
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| | See Also: | | atrocity, cruelness, cruelty, harshness, inhumanity | |
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| | Definition: | | \Bru*tal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Brutalities}. [Cf. F.
brutalit['e].]
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness;
pitilessness.
2. An inhuman act.
The . . . brutalities exercised in war. --Brougham.
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| | Related Terms: | | abominableness, acuteness, Adam, animalism, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnal nature, carnality, carnal-mindedness, coarseness, contemptibleness, cruelness, cruelty, despicableness, destructiveness, detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, earthiness, egregiousness, extremity, fallen nature, fallen state, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, filth, flesh, fleshliness, force, foulness, fulsomeness, furiousness, Gothicism, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, infamousness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, lapsed state, loathsomeness, lousiness, malignity, materialism, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, nastiness, Neanderthalism, nefariousness, noisomeness, nonspirituality, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, outrageousness, philistinism, pitilessness, postlapsarian state, rankness, repulsiveness, rigor, rottenness, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, scandalousness, scurviness, severity, shabbiness, shamefulness, sharpness, shoddiness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, swinishness, terribleness, terrorism, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the Old Adam, the pits, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncleanness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, ungentleness, unrefinement, unspirituality, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, vileness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness, worthlessness, wretchedness |
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