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

1. The savagery of the attack was horrifying.
2. an act of pure savagery
3. 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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