barbarities
Acts of savagery
Barbarities is the plural of barbarity—acts of extreme cruelty or brutal violence.
The word emphasizes savage or inhumane conduct, often in warfare or oppression: The report documented barbarities committed against civilians.
Barbarities can also refer to uncivilized conditions or practices more broadly: the barbarities of prison life in the nineteenth century.
Harsh, harmful acts
- atrocitiesExtremely cruel acts
- massacresBrutal group killings
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
war crimes · ethnic cleansing · pogroms · slaughter · brutalization · persecution · inhumanities · savageries
Extreme, violent cruelty
- primitivenessUndeveloped, basic quality
- backwardnessState of being undeveloped
- crudenessLack of sophistication
- uncouthnessLack of polish
coarseness · philistinism · boorishness · vulgarity · ignorance · incivility · roughness · wildness
Errors in speech or manners
- errorsUnintentional deviations from correctness
- corruptionsDebasements of purity
- malapropismsConfused word substitutions
- vulgarismsCrude or indecent expressions
cruelties
Harsh, harmful acts
- atrocitiesExtremely cruel acts
- massacresBrutal group killings
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
torture · war crimes · ethnic cleansing · pogroms · slaughter · brutalization · persecution · inhumanities · savageries · horrors
savagery
Extreme, violent cruelty
- primitivenessUndeveloped, basic quality
- backwardnessState of being undeveloped
- crudenessLack of sophistication
uncouthness · coarseness · philistinism · boorishness · vulgarity · ignorance · incivility · roughness · wildness · uncultured
solecisms
Errors in speech or manners
- errorsUnintentional deviations from correctness
- corruptionsDebasements of purity
- malapropismsConfused word substitutions
vulgarisms · improprieties · misusages · bastardizations · inelegancies
barbaritiesmercies
Acts of forgiveness
kindnesses · compassions · humaneness · benevolences · gentleness
barbaritiescivilities
Formal polite behaviors
civilizations · decencies · refinements · courtesies · proprieties
barbaric, barbarian, barbarity, barbarous, barbarism, barbarously, barbarically, barbarisms, barbarousness