Noun: barbarity baa(r)'ber-u-tee [N. Amer], baa(r)'ba-ru-tee [Brit]
- The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
"The barbarity of the war crimes horrified the international community";
- atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, heinousness
- 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