barbarity

[ bahr-bar-i-tee ]

/ bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /

brutal or inhuman conduct; cruelty.

an act or instance of cruelty or inhumanity.

crudity of style, taste, expression, etc.

Origin of barbarity

1560–70; < Latin barbar(us) (see barbarous) + -ity

barbarism barbarity

As they now live out their wildest dreams, their barbarity has cost the U.S. far more.

The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built |Michael Daly |December 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The two Chechen wars, fought in 1994-96 and 1999-2000, were almost unparalleled in their barbarity in the postwar era.

Women Who Blow Themselves Up |David Satter |March 30, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
The humiliation of striped clothes he was spared; that barbarity had been done away with by law.

Frank of Freedom Hill |Samuel A. Derieux
Now I cannot bear the barbarity of it; how can that unconscionable coachman talk so much bawdy to that lean horse?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman |Laurence Sterne

This general distress must teach the lesson that even war has its limit of barbarity.

In The Ranks |R. E. McBride
There was no kind of insolence, injustice and barbarity of which they were not guilty.

The Choctaw Freedmen |Robert Elliott Flickinger
This spectacular exhibition of a brutal punishment seemed to me like a relic of barbarity.

Ten years in the ranks, U.S. army |Augustus Meyers

barbarity

/ (bɑːˈbærɪtɪ) /

the state or condition of being barbaric or barbarous

a brutal or vicious act

a crude or unsophisticated quality, style, expression, etc