Usually means: Crude, cruel, and utterly uncivilized.
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  1. brutishness: Merriam-Webster
  2. brutishness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brutishness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. brutishness: Wordnik
  5. brutishness: Wiktionary
  6. brutishness: Dictionary.com
  7. brutishness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. brutishness: FreeDictionary.org
  9. brutishness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brutishness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The characteristic of being brutish.

Similar:
brutality, bruteness, brutalness, brutedom, brusqueness, bruskness, brazenness, barbarousness, brattishness, barbarity, more...

Opposite:
refinement, civility, sophistication, elegance

Types:
savagery, barbarism, bestiality, cruelty, ferocity, inhumanity, more...

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Similar:
brutality, bruteness, brutalness, brutedom, brusqueness, bruskness, brazenness, barbarousness, brattishness, barbarity, more...

Opposite:
refinement, civility, sophistication, elegance

Types:
savagery, barbarism, bestiality, cruelty, ferocity, inhumanity, more...



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