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barbarity (countable and uncountable, plural barbarities)
- (uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
- (countable) A barbaric act
1942 [1942 February 21], Kai-shek Chiang, “One half of the world's people”, in All We Are and All We Have, New York: Chinese News Service, →OCLC, page 11:As regards barbarities committed by the Japanese army since our war of resistance, the fall of Nanking in December 1937 is a case in point. Over 200,000 civilians were massacred within one week.
- (uncountable) crudity
- (countable) A crude act
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