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Carnage vs Atrocity - What's the difference?

carnage | atrocity |

As nouns the difference between carnage and atrocity

is that carnage is death and destruction while atrocity is (uncountable) the quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.

carnage

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Death and destruction.
  • What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
  • Any chaotic situation.
  • * 2014 , Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
    • The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.

    Synonyms

    * bloodbath * massacre

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    atrocity

    English

    (wikipedia atrocity)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
  • (countable) An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
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    • Related terms

    * atrocious

    See also

    * heinousness * criminality * brutality

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