Synonyms of savagery

savagery

noun

ˈsa-vij-rē 

as in cruelty

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

a study of the savagery shown by soldiers in wartime

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cruelty
• brutality
• barbarity
• atrocity
• savageness
• inhumanity
• sadism
• heartlessness
• viciousness
• murderousness
• cruelness
• fiendishness
• truculence
• barbarousness
• wantonness
• ruthlessness
• inhumanness
• ferocity
• mercilessness
• atrociousness
• ferociousness
• pitilessness
• fierceness
• meanness
• grimness
• bloodthirstiness
• oppressiveness
• bloodlust
• malevolence
• malignity
• spitefulness
• hatefulness
• maliciousness
• hard-heartedness
• sanguinity
• unfeelingness
• fellness
• harshness
• nastiness
• sanguineness
• cattiness
• despitefulness
• heavy-handedness
• hardhandedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humanity
• sympathy
• compassion
• kindness
• humaneness
• benignity
• tenderness
• warmth
• tenderheartedness
• kindheartedness
• warmness
• mercy
• good-heartedness
• pity
• clemency
• leniency
• warmheartedness
• charitableness
• mercifulness

Examples of savagery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But where Succession is fundamentally a family saga about the jaded rich, Industry focuses on fresh converts to the savagery and excesses of the business world. —Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024

The genocide was a spasm of barely imaginable butchery and savagery. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 July 2024

The film’s finale, in which the exhausted Deckard is terrorized and then saved by Rutger Hauer’s replicant leader Roy Batty, is the film’s most moving fight with Batty’s savagery and humanity in perfect equilibrium. —Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024

But an uptick in savagery was not by itself responsible for the changes of the last decade. —Graeme Wood, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017