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| Main Entry: | brutality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruel treatment |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, cruelty, ferocity, inhumanity, sadism, third degree, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, choke hold, fierceness, grossness, ruthlessness, savageness, savagery, unfeelingness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | gentleness, kindness, niceness, humaneness |
| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarity, brutality, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, misuse, solecism, catachresis, localism, malapropism, misusage, primitive culture, provincialism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
| Antonyms: | kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | barbarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery |
| Synonyms: | brutality, cruelty, inhumanity, vulgarity, boorishness, crudeness, ruthlessness, savageness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | kindness |
| Main Entry: | ferocity |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fierceness |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, brutality, cruelty, violence, bloodthirstiness, ferociousness, murderousness, savagery, viciousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | inhumanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of compassion |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarism, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, violence, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, cold-bloodedness, heartlessness, maliciousness, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness |
| Main Entry: | oppression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misery, hardship |
| Synonyms: | abuse, autocracy, brutality, calamity, coercion, compulsion, conquering, control, cruelty, despotism, dictatorship, domination, fascism, force, harshness, injury, injustice, iron hand*, maltreatment, martial law, persecution, severity, suffering, torment, abusiveness, forcibleness, hardness, overthrowing, subduing, subjection, tyrrany |
| Antonyms: | cheer, delight, happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
| Synonyms: | abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, severity, storm, struggle, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, bestiality, brute force, destructiveness, fierceness, murderousness, savagery, sharpness, storminess, terrorism, wildness |
| Antonyms: | peace, passivity, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | harshness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, brutality, cruelty, tyranny, sternness |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action |
| Synonyms: | abomination, barbarity, brutality, crime, enormity, evil, horror, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, monstrosity, offense, outrage, wrong, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasantness |
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