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Noun: barbarity  baa(r)'baritee
  1. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
    - atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, heinousness
     
  2. A brutal barbarous savage act
    - brutality, barbarism, savagery

Derived forms: barbarities

See also: barbaric

Type of: atrocity, inhumaneness, inhumanity

Encyclopedia: Barbarity

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