barbarity

noun

1 the barbarity of slavery:

brutality, brutalism, cruelty, bestiality, barbarism, barbarousness, savagery, viciousness, fierceness, ferocity, wickedness, nastiness, ruthlessness, remorselessness, mercilessness, villainy, murderousness, heinousness, nefariousness, monstrousness, baseness, vileness, inhumanity, fiendishness, hellishness, ghastliness, horror.

▷antonyms benevolence.

2 the barbarities of the last war:

atrocity, act of brutality, act of savagery, evil, crime, outrage, offense, abomination, obscenity, enormity, wrong.

3 beyond the empire lay barbarity:

heathendom, barbarianism, barbarism, barbarousness, primitiveness, wildness;

philistinism, benightedness, unsophisticatedness, lack of civilization;

archaic rudeness.

▷antonyms civilization.