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Noun: barbarousness  baa(r)-bu-rus-nus
  1. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
    "The barbarousness of the war crimes horrified the international community";
    - atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, heinousness

Type of: inhumaneness, inhumanity

Encyclopedia: Barbarousness