Brutality vs Oppression - What's the difference?
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The state of being brutal.
A cruel or savage act.
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, chapter=18 The use of excessive physical force e.g. police brutality.
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
A feeling of being oppressed.
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As nouns the difference between brutality and oppression
is that brutality is the state of being brutal while oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.brutality
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Noun
(brutalities)citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
oppression
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Noun
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}