'Savagery' definitions:
Definition of 'savagery'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, savagery]
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Definition of 'Savagery'
From: GCIDE
- 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 vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wild growth, as of plants. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'savagery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Gothicism,
- harshness,
- heathenism,
- ill breeding,
- impetuosity,
- impoliteness,
- incivility,
- inclemency,
- inhumaneness,
- inhumanity,
- intensity,
- malignity,
- mercilessness,
- mindlessness,
- murderousness,
- Neanderthalism,
- 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