Synonyms for barbarity
bɑrˈbær ɪ tibar·bar·i·ty

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1. barbarity

   Synonyms:
   brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness

   Antonyms:
   almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, generosity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness

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1. atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousnessnoun

   the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

   Synonyms:
   atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, barbarism, brutality, inhumanity, heinousness, savagery

2. brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagerynoun

   a brutal barbarous savage act

   Synonyms:
   atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, savageness, viciousness, barbarism, brutality, heinousness, savagery, ferociousness

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1. • Inhumaneness

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1. barbaritynoun

   Synonyms:
   cruelty, savageness, brutality, brutishness, ferociousness, ferocity, inhumanity, truculence, hardness of heart, manners of a barbarian

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1. barbaritynoun

   Synonyms:
   barbarism, barbarousness, inhumanity, brutality

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1. List of paraphrases for "barbarity":

   barbarism, barbaric, barbarous, savagery, cruelty, brutality, inhumanity, atrocity

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1. Elaine Pearson:

   The junta's barbarity and callous disregard for human life aims to chill the anti-coup protest movement, european Union member states, the United States, and other governments should show the junta that there will be a reckoning for its crimes.

2. Jose Maria Hernandez:

   This is a massacre. A barbarity. These police surrounded the house and burned it after my nephew refused to let them put snipers on the roof.

3. Adrian LeBaron:

   I really believe that the cartels in Mexico have moved to another level of barbarity, they are as bad or worse than ISIS. ISIS have an ideology, these sicarios (hitmen), why are they doing it? Out of greed and pure evil.

4. Laura Ingraham:

   Every day the barbarity of the Left’s COVID lockdowns and school closures becomes more apparent, the great global resetters who love to see us shut in and shut up were fine seeing our economy destroyed – and even turning kids into screaming zombies.

5. Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa:

   When there is a difference of 18 percent on average between the salary of men and women, disparity in political positions, and when there is barbarity such as gender violence, it's a sign that there is still much to do in the fight for women's rights.