SAVAGERY DEFINITIONS - 7 definitions found
savagery 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 Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) savagery noun (plural -ries) Date: 1597 1. a. the quality of being savage b. an act of cruelty or violence 2. an uncivilized state Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary savagery Savagery is extremely cruel and violent behaviour. ...the sheer savagery of war. N-UNCOUNT Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms savagery n. 1. Savagism, barbarism. 2. Cruelty, barbarity. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 81 Moby Thesaurus words for "savagery": 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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