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brutality

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of brutality

1 disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

the police were accused of brutality for using excessive force in making arrests

Synonyms of brutality

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

Words Related to brutality

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 brutality

tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth

charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity

Antonyms of brutality

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

2 the manifestation of the traits or the gratification of the appetites of a lower animal

the disconcerting ease with which the people adopted the brutality of the enemy invaders

Synonyms of brutality

animalism, animality, beastliness, bestiality, brutishness, swinishness

Words Related to brutality

carnality, physicality, sensuality

boorishness, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, loutishness, rudeness

barbarity, cruelty, sadism, savagery, viciousness, wantonness

Near Antonyms of brutality

intellectuality, spirituality

greatheartedness, high-mindedness, magnanimity, nobility

beneficence, benevolence, benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, tenderheartedness

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