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savagery

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Synonyms & Antonyms of savagery

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

a study of the savagery shown by soldiers in wartime

Synonyms for savagery

atrociousness,
atrocity,
barbarity,
barbarousness,
brutality,
cruelness,
cruelty,
fiendishness,
heartlessness,
inhumanity,
inhumanness,
sadism,
savageness,
truculence,
viciousness,
wantonness

Words Related to savagery

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 for savagery

tenderness,
warmheartedness,
warmness,
warmth

charitableness,
clemency,
leniency,
mercifulness,
mercy,
pity

Antonyms for savagery

benignity,
compassion,
good-heartedness,
humaneness,
humanity,
kindheartedness,
kindness,
sympathy,
tenderheartedness

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