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"brutality" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often savagery (8 letters).
Definitions
a brutal barbarous savage act
Word origin
From brutal + -ity.
Used in a sentence
“police brutality”
“school brutality”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Savage cruelty”9 letters
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