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 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.

2. Michael Kugelman:

   For some hardened and impressionable radicals, bling could be as appealing as barbarity.

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. 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.

5. President Barack Obama:

   This barbarity only stiffens our resolve to meet this challenge.