barbarity vs tormenting

barbarity

noun

  • A barbaric act 

  • A crude act 

  • The state of being barbarous; brutality 

  • crudity 

tormenting

noun

  • The act by which somebody is tormented. 

adj

  • Involving or causing torment. 

How often have the words barbarity and tormenting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )