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- Dictionarybrutalism/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"
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