Meaning

4 senses
  1. (uncountable)The state of being barbarous; brutality

    Barbarei

    ва́рварствоvárvarstvo

    a brutal barbarous savage act

  2. (countable)A barbaric act

  3. (uncountable)Crudity

  4. (countable)A crude act

Examples

1 sentences
  1. War is barbarity, insane fratricide, absurd and disastrous destruction, senseless and inhumane conflict – a violation of blessed and fortunate peace.

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Translations

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state of being barbarous:
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state of being barbarous:

Forms

plural: barbarities
Singularbarbarity
Pluralbarbarities

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbarbaric

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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