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   brutalism

   /ˈbruːtəlɪz(ə)m/

   noun

   • 1. cruelty and savageness: "exchanging one kind of social and economic brutalism for another is not what they had in mind"
   • 2. a stark style of functionalist architecture, especially of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by the use of steel and concrete in massive blocks: "the long, low, concrete-faced buildings were remarkable solely for their brutalism"

   Derivatives

   • 1. brutalist noun

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