All brutality synonyms

noun brutality

• savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
• inhumanity — the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.
• cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• barbarity — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
• barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
• atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
• fierceness — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
• grossness — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
• sadism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others. Compare masochism.
• ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
• vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
• savage — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
• unfeeling — not feeling; devoid of feeling; insensible or insensate.
• brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.