brutality

English

Etymology

brutal +‎ -ity.

Noun

brutality (plural brutalities)

The state of being brutal.
A cruel or savage act.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess‎:
  ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
The use of excessive physical force, often in the form of violence.
police brutality

school brutality

Translations

a state of being brutal

Azerbaijani: zalımlıq (az)
Catalan: brutalitat f
Czech: brutalita f
Dutch: wreedheid (nl)
Esperanto: brutaleco
Finnish: raakuus (fi), julmuus (fi), brutaalius (fi)
French: brutalité (fr) f
Galician: brutalidade (gl) f
German: Brutalität (de) f
Greek: αγριότητα (el) f (agriótita)
Irish: brúidiúlacht f
Italian: brutalità (it)
Luxembourgish: Brutalitéit f

Norwegian:
Bokmål: brutalitet m

Nynorsk: brutalitet m
Polish: brutalność (pl) f
Portuguese: brutalidade (pt) f
Russian: жесто́кость (ru) m (žestókostʹ), зве́рство (ru) n (zvérstvo)
Scottish Gaelic: brùidealachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: брута́лно̄ст f

Roman: brutálnōst (sh) f
Spanish: brutalidad f
Swedish: brutalitet (sv) c

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Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} жестокост (bg) f (žestokost), ^{(please verify)} бруталност (bg) f (brutalnost)

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