barbarity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
    barbarousness; atrocity; heinousness; atrociousness.
  2. noun a brutal barbarous savage act
    barbarism; savagery; brutality.

WordNet

Bar*bar"i*ty noun
Etymology
From Barbarous.
Wordforms
plural Barbarities
Definitions
  1. The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
  2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
    Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.
  3. A barbarous or cruel act.
  4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. Obs. Swift.

Webster 1913