If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel. Rebellions were put down with appalling barbarity. ... the barbarity of war.

How do you use barbarity in a sentence?

a brutal barbarous savage act. (1) The barbarity of the old regime was eventually exposed. (2) It allows recovery before the barbarity, the social invasion, of the family. (3) Chamberlain was appalled by the barbarity of Kristallnacht, which undoubtedly helped to speed up immigration procedures.

What barbarity means?

1 : barbarism. 2a : barbarous cruelty : inhumanity. b : an act or instance of such cruelty.