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means Savage, cruel violence or harshness — the quality of treating people (or being treated) with vicious disregard for pain.

from From French brutalité, from Latin brutalis, built on brutus — 'heavy, dull, stupid' — the same root that gives us 'brute.' Brutus originally described dumb beasts or slow-witted things, not moral evil; the Latin sense drifted from 'unreasoning, animal-like' toward 'savage,' as if stupidity and cruelty were cousins sharing one word. By the time English borrowed it, brutality had shed the 'dim-witted' sense almost entirely and kept only the violence.