Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brutality"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brutality \Bru*tal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Brutalities}. [Cf. F.
brutalit['e].]
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness;
pitilessness.
2. An inhuman act.
The . . . brutalities exercised in war. --Brougham.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
brutality
n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: {ferociousness}, {viciousness},
{savageness}, {savagery}]
2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: {barbarity}, {barbarism},
{savagery}]
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