What is another word for brutalization?

Pronunciation: [bɹˌuːtəla͡ɪzˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

The word "brutalization" can be replaced with several synonyms that have a similar meaning. One of the synonyms is "barbarization," which denotes the process of becoming less civilized and more primitive. Another synonym is "savageification," which highlights the act of becoming more brutal and violent. Similarly, "cruelty" and "inhumanity" can serve as synonyms for brutalization as they refer to the state of being brutal or lacking in compassion. Lastly, "dehumanization" is also a synonym for brutalization as it implies that someone is being stripped of their human qualities, including their empathy, dignity, and respect.

Usage examples for Brutalization

Unfortunately, or because the brutalization is not yet complete and because the nature of man is inherent in his being in spite of his condition, the native protests; he still has aspirations, he thinks and strives to rise, and there's the trouble!
"The Indolence of the Filipino"
Jose Rizal
Is their brutalization the price we pay for our refinement?
"The Testing of Diana Mallory"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
His nine companions-they were examined in batches of ten in order to save time-did not have such good luck, but were condemned to repeat the year of brutalization.
"The Reign of Greed Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo'"
Jose Rizal

Famous quotes with Brutalization

  • The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.
    Michael Pollan
  • Surely, no patriot can fail to see the fearful brutalization and debasement which the indulgence of such a spirit and such practices inevitably portend. Surely, all public men, all writers for the daily press, all clergymen, all teachers, all who in any way have a right to address the public, should, with every energy, unite to denounce such crimes and to support those engaged in putting them down.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • The evidence introduced for political pessimism; the criminal, the lunatic, and the asocial individual, in a word, the second-rate citizen —these are not by nature as one finds them now but have been made so by society. It is said that they have never had a chance to be as they would be according to their nature, but were forced into the situation in which they find themselves through poverty, coercion, and ignorance. They are victims of society. This defense against political pessimism regarding human nature is at first convincing. It possesses the superiority of dialectical thinking over positivistic thinking. It transforms moral states and qualities into processes. Brutal people do not “exist,” only their brutalization; criminality does not “exist,” only criminalization; stupidity does not “exist,” only stupefaction; self-seeking does not “exist,” only training in egoism; there are no second-rate citizens, only victims of patronization. What political positivism takes to be nature is in reality falsified nature: the suppression of opportunity for human beings. Rousseau knew of two aids who could illustrate his point of view, two classes of human beings who lived before civilization and, consequently, before perversion: the noble savage and the child. Enlightenment literature develops two of its most intimate passions around these two figures: ethnology and pedagogy.
    Peter Sloterdijk

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