BARBARITY meaning: Extreme cruelty; absence of civilization

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barbarity: Merriam-Webster
barbarity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
barbarity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
barbarity: Collins English Dictionary
barbarity: Vocabulary.com
Barbarity, barbarity: Wordnik
barbarity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
barbarity: Wiktionary
barbarity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
barbarity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
barbarity: Infoplease Dictionary
Barbarity, barbarity: Dictionary.com
Barbarity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
barbarity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
barbarity: Rhymezone
Barbarity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
barbarity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
barbarity: FreeDictionary.org
barbarity: Mnemonic Dictionary
barbarity: TheFreeDictionary.com
barbarity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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barbarity: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barbarity)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
▸ noun:  (countable) A barbaric act
▸ noun:  (uncountable) crudity
▸ noun:  (countable) A crude act

Opposite:

civilization, cultivation

Types:

genocide, massacre, pogrom, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, more...

Adjectives:

such, savage, great, wanton, utmost, horrible, shocking, indian, extreme, inhuman, horrid

Colors:

crimson, blood red, dark red, black, charcoal, more...

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