Synonyms of barbarity

barbarity

noun

bär-ˈber-ə-tē 

as in cruelty

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 & Similar Words

• cruelty
• brutality
• atrocity
• savagery
• inhumanity
• savageness
• sadism
• heartlessness
• viciousness
• murderousness
• cruelness
• fiendishness
• barbarousness
• truculence
• wantonness
• inhumanness
• ruthlessness
• atrociousness
• mercilessness
• ferocity
• meanness
• pitilessness
• grimness
• oppressiveness
• bloodthirstiness
• fierceness
• ferociousness
• malevolence
• bloodlust
• malignity
• hard-heartedness
• spitefulness
• hatefulness
• unfeelingness
• maliciousness
• sanguinity
• fellness
• harshness
• nastiness
• sanguineness
• despitefulness
• cattiness
• heavy-handedness
• hardhandedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humanity
• sympathy
• compassion
• kindness
• humaneness
• benignity
• tenderness
• warmth
• tenderheartedness
• kindheartedness
• pity
• mercy
• warmness
• good-heartedness
• clemency
• leniency
• warmheartedness
• charitableness
• mercifulness

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of barbarity

The recent execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith demonstrates this barbarity. —The Editors, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024

The barbarity and brutality of the Hamas attack is barely mentioned in world news, save for certain American media coverage. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024

The Klansmen returned his canvases too, this time in play-school pinks and blues, performing pleasantries instead of barbarities: driving, smoking, socializing and — tellingly — painting at easels. —Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 June 2024

But there are few other films before or since that have revealed the sheer physical barbarity and psychotropic horror of warfare. —Erik Morse, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024