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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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