savagery

savagery
Synonyms and related words:
Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, age of ignorance, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, dark, dark age, darkness, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, heathenism, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, paganism, philistinism, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagism, severity, sharpness, terrorism, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, unenlightenment, ungentleness, unrefinement, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness

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  • Savagery — Sav age*ry (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.] 1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. [1913 Webster] A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster] 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. [1913 Webster] The wildest savagery, the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • savagery — index atrocity, bestiality, brutality, cruelty, severity, violence Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • savagery — 1590s; see SAVAGE (Cf. savage) + RY (Cf. ry) …   Etymology dictionary

  • savagery — [sav′ijrē] n. pl. savageries 1. the condition of being savage, or wild, primitive, uncultivated, etc. 2. savage act, behavior, or disposition; barbarity …   English World dictionary

  • savagery — n. 1) to display, show savagery 2) an outburst of savagery * * * [ sævɪdʒ(ə)rɪ] show savagery an outburst of to display …   Combinatory dictionary

  • savagery — [[t]sæ̱vɪʤri[/t]] N UNCOUNT Savagery is extremely cruel and violent behaviour. ...the sheer savagery of war …   English dictionary

  • savagery — sav|ag|e|ry [ˈsævıdʒəri] n plural savageries [U and C] extremely cruel and violent behaviour ▪ Local people were shocked by the savagery of the attack …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • savagery — noun (C, U) extremely cruel and violent behaviour: He used to beat the boy with great savagery …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • savagery — savage ► ADJECTIVE 1) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled. 2) cruel and vicious. 3) primitive; uncivilized. 4) (of a place) wild; uncultivated. ► NOUN 1) a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. 2) a brutal or vicious …   English terms dictionary

  • savagery — noun 1. the property of being untamed and ferocious the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums • Syn: ↑savageness • Derivationally… …   Useful english dictionary

  • savagery — noun (plural ries) Date: 1597 1. a. the quality of being savage b. an act of cruelty or violence 2. an uncivilized state …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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