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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAV'AGERY, n.
1. Wild growth, as of plants.
2. Cruelty; barbarity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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, savagery]
2: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery]
3: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ries) Date: 1597 1. a. the quality of being savage b. an act of cruelty or violence 2. an uncivilized state

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Savagery Sav"age*ry (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.] 1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. --C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse. --Shak. 3. Wild growth, as of plants. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Savagery is extremely cruel and violent behaviour. ...the sheer savagery of war.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Savagism, barbarism. 2. Cruelty, barbarity.

Moby Thesaurus

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