Synonyms and Antonyms of brutality
1
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others - accused the arresting officer of brutality
atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, cruelty, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness
ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness
bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity
cattiness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness
hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness
2
the manifestation of the traits or the gratification of the appetites of a lower animal - reduced to brutality in their struggle to survive
carnality, physicality, sensuality
boorishness, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, loutishness, rudeness
barbarity, cruelty, sadism, savagery, viciousness, wantonness
intellectuality, spirituality
greatheartedness, high-mindedness, magnanimity, nobility
beneficence, benevolence, benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, tenderheartedness
