Savagery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Savagery \Sav"age*ry\ (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.]
     1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
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              A like work of primeval savagery.     --C. Kingsley.
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     2. An act of cruelty; barbarity.
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              The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
              That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
              Presented to the tears of soft remorse. --Shak.
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     3. Wild growth, as of plants. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  savagery
       n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: {ferociousness}, {brutality},
             {viciousness}, {savageness}]
       2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: {brutality}, {barbarity},
           {barbarism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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