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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How to use barbarity in a sentence?

1. President Barack Obama:

   This barbarity only stiffens our resolve to meet this challenge.

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. President Obama:

   It's just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization, and I think it will redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of the global coalition to make sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated.

4. Oscar Johnson Rivas:

   They were grabbing us mercilessly, like we were animals, thats a barbarity, because were all human.

5. Oumar Fomba:

   I feel bruised by this atrocious act, which cannot be justified. No nation, no human life deserves such criminal barbarity, i urge the Malian government to fight more fiercely against terrorism.