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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of savagery

The Battle of Shiloh in southwest Tennessee on April 6-7, 1862, brought home the savagery of the war as there were more than 24,000 casualties on both sides. — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026

Despite Dee’s savagery, Blyth portrays Taylor’s cellmate as loyal and honest — someone who believes in a personal code of conduct. — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026

Ben’s twisted misogynist savagery is exhausting from the start. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Apr. 2026

Adapted for television by Adolescence co-creator, Emmy winner Jack Thorne, in Lord of the Flies, innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026