barbarity
Uncivilized brutal conduct
Barbarity is savage cruelty or brutal violence: The barbarity of the attacks shocked even hardened observers.
It can also refer to an uncivilized or primitive state, though this sense carries colonial baggage.
In the plural, barbarities are specific acts of cruelty: the barbarities committed during the occupation.
Extreme, violent cruelty
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- mercilessnessAbsence of compassion or clemency
- ruthlessnessLack of compassion or mercy
callousness · heartlessness · pitilessness · inhumanity · cold-bloodedness · sadism · malevolence · fiendishness
Killing and wounding
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- slaughterKilling for meat
- carnageWidespread violent death
- butcherySavage killing
atrocity · assault · mayhem · havoc · destruction · warfare · combat · aggression
Intense, violent anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
- wrathFierce, punishing anger
frenzy · savageness · fierceness · brutishness · intensity · vehemence · wildness · animality
Unjust exercise of power
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
injustice · subjugation · enslavement · victimization · imprisonment · harassment · hounding · discrimination
Undeveloped, basic quality
- backwardnessState of being undeveloped
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
- crudenessLack of sophistication
- uncouthnessLack of polish
roughness · boorishness · philistinism · vulgarity · ignorance · benightedness
savagery
Extreme, violent cruelty
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- mercilessnessAbsence of compassion or clemency
ruthlessness · callousness · heartlessness · pitilessness · inhumanity · cold-bloodedness · sadism · malevolence · fiendishness · heinousness
bloodshed
Killing and wounding
butchery · atrocity · assault · mayhem · havoc · destruction · warfare · combat · aggression · rampage
rage
Intense, violent anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
wrath · frenzy · savageness · fierceness · brutishness · intensity · vehemence · wildness · animality · ferociousness
oppression
Unjust exercise of power
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
abuse · injustice · subjugation · enslavement · victimization · imprisonment · harassment · hounding · discrimination · expulsion
primitiveness
Undeveloped, basic quality
- backwardnessState of being undeveloped
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
- crudenessLack of sophistication
uncouthness · roughness · boorishness · philistinism · vulgarity · ignorance · benightedness
- crueltycruelty, brutality, inhumanity, viciousness, ruthlessness
- savagerybrutality, brutishness, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness
- literary violenceviolence, brutality, cruelty, murder mystery, bloodshed
- malevolencemalevolence, cruelty, viciousness, malice, spite
- wickednessevil, evilness, wickedness, villainy, malice
- horrorshorror, dread, terror, fright, dreadfulness
barbaritykindness
Considerate, caring disposition
gentleness · mercy · compassion · humaneness · humanity
barbaritycivilization
Advanced organized human society
civility · refinement · cultivation · sophistication · enlightenment
barbarityhumanity
People as a whole
benevolence · charity · charitableness · warmth · goodness
- barbarian tribesPeoples outside civilization's borders
- barbarian raidsAttacks by uncivilized tribes
- barbarian kingdomsPost-imperial Germanic polities
barbaric, barbarian, barbarism, barbarically, barbarisms, barbarities, barbarized, barbarization, barbarize