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

Italy’s solitary-confinement policy—a regulation called carcere duro, or hard prison—is controversial in northern Europe, where it is seen as an example of southern barbarity. —D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Numerous political leaders were prosecuted for barbarities in the Balkans and Rwanda, but those tribunals were established by the Security Council, where Russia has a veto. —Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024

Fanon persists in the activist imagination as a kind of radical soothsayer, an intellectual who can speak authoritatively about our moment because of his identity as a Black man and colonial subject who personally experienced the barbarity of a colonizing power. —Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024

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