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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BARBAR'ITY, n. [See Barbarian.] The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness]
2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: circa 1570 1. barbarism 2. a. barbarous cruelty ; inhumanity b. an act or instance of such cruelty

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 savage cruelty. 2 an example of this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Barbarity Bar*bar"i*ty, n.; pl. Barbarities. [From Barbarous.] The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. 2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. --Macaulay. 3. A barbarous or cruel act. 4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] --Swift.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(barbarities) If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel. ...the barbarity of war. = savagery N-VAR [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cruelty, savageness, barbarousness, brutality, brutishness, ferociousness, ferocity, inhumanity, truculence, hardness of heart, manners of a barbarian.

Moby Thesaurus

Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, heartlessness, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, philistinism, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, severity, sharpness, terrorism, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, ungentleness, unrefinement, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness