ETYM Cf. French brutalité.
A brutal barbarous savage act; SYN. barbarity, barbarism, savagery.
Cruelness; insensitiveness; roughness, maltreatment
1. A natural or unrefined state; SYN. crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness.
2. An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; SYN. crudity, gaucheness.
3. An unpolished unrefined quality; SYN. roughness.