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Noun: barbarity  baa(r)'ber-u-tee [N. Amer], baa(r)'ba-ru-tee [Brit]
  1. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
    - atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, heinousness
     
  2. A barbarous, cruel, or savage act
    "the people slowly progressed from barbarity to civilization";
    - brutality, barbarism, savagery

Derived forms: barbarities

Type of: atrocity, inhumaneness, inhumanity

Encyclopedia: Barbarity

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