Associations to the word «Barbarity»

Wiktionary

BARBARITY, noun. (uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
BARBARITY, noun. (countable) A barbaric act
BARBARITY, noun. (uncountable) crudity
BARBARITY, noun. (countable) A crude act

Dictionary definition

BARBARITY, noun. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.
BARBARITY, noun. A brutal barbarous savage act.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne