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barbarity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of barbarity

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

more than one reluctant dental patient has been tempted to level the charge of barbarity against their dentist

Synonyms of barbarity

atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness, cruelty, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness

Words Related to barbarity

hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness

fellness, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness

bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity

cattiness, despitefulness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness

hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness

Near Antonyms of barbarity

tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth

charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity

Antonyms of barbarity

benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness

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