1. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
   - atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness 
2. An act of atrocious cruelty
   - inhumanity

Derived forms: atrocities

See also: atrocious

Type of: cruelty, inhuman treatment, inhumaneness, inhumanity

Encyclopedia: Atrocity

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