Dictionary:

brutality

  (brū-tăl'ĭ-tē)

1. The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
2. A ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting act.

noun

A cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior: barbarity, bestiality, cruelty, inhumanity, savagery, truculence, truculency. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, kind/cruel.

Definition: cruel treatment
Antonyms: gentleness, humaneness, kindness, niceness

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the trait of extreme cruelty
  Synonyms: ferociousness, viciousness, savageness, savagery

Meaning #2: a brutal barbarous savage act
  Synonyms: barbarity, barbarism, savagery

Brutality may refer to:

• Brutality (band), an American death metal band
• Brutality (Mortal Kombat), a finishing move in the video game Mortal Kombat
• Brutalism, an architectural style
• Brutal: Paws of Fury, a video game
• Battery (crime)
• Police brutality
• Brutality (Clan Counter Strike)
• Brutality (film), a 1912 film

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