brutalisation

Other forms of brutalisation

plural

brutalisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brutalisation

What does brutalisation mean?

brutalisation means "the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brutalisation?

brutalisation has 6 syllables: bru-ta-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for brutalisation?

Close synonyms include brutalization, brutalization, brutalization, animalization, animalisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brutalisation a common word?

brutalisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.