brutality

Other forms of brutality

plural

brutalities·

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 brutality

What does brutality mean?

brutality means "the trait of extreme cruelty". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brutality?

brutality has 4 syllables: bru-tal-i-ty. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /bɹuˈtæləti/.

What is another word for brutality?

Close synonyms include ferociousness, viciousness, savagery, barbarity, barbarism. 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 brutality a common word?

brutality is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brutality?

5 words rhyme with brutality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.