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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brutality \Bru*tal"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Brutalities}. [Cf. F. brutalit['e].]
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
2. An inhuman act.
The . . . brutalities exercised in war. --Brougham.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
brutality
noun
1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: {ferociousness}, {viciousness}, {savageness}, {savagery}]
2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: {barbarity}, {barbarism}, {savagery}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "brutality": Adam, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, abominableness, acuteness, animalism, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, contemptibleness, cruelness, cruelty, despicableness, destructiveness, detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, earthiness, egregiousness, extremity, fallen nature, fallen state, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, filth, flesh, fleshliness, force, foulness, fulsomeness, furiousness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, infamousness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, lapsed state, loathsomeness, lousiness, malignity, materialism, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, nastiness, nefariousness, noisomeness, nonspirituality, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, outrageousness, philistinism, pitilessness, postlapsarian state, rankness, repulsiveness, rigor, rottenness, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, scandalousness, scurviness, severity, shabbiness, shamefulness, sharpness, shoddiness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, swinishness, terribleness, terrorism, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the pits, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncleanness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, ungentleness, unrefinement, unspirituality, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, vileness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness, worthlessness, wretchedness
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