savagery
sav·age·ry
noun \ˈsa-vij-rē, -vi-jə-\ plural sav·age·ries
Definition of SAVAGERY
1
a : the quality of being savage b : an act of cruelty or violence
2
: an uncivilized state
Examples of SAVAGERY
- The savagery of the attack was horrifying.
- an act of pure savagery
- the savageries committed by the soldiers
First Known Use of SAVAGERY
1597
Related to SAVAGERY
Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, cruelty, truculence, viciousness, wantonness
Antonyms: benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness
Related Words: hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness; fellness, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness; bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity; cattiness, despitefulness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness; hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness
Near Antonyms: tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth; charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity
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