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savagery

DEFINITIONS OF: savagery

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n the property of being untamed and ferocious

“a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums”
Synonyms:
savageness
Type of:
ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
the property of being wild or turbulent

n the trait of extreme cruelty

Synonyms:
brutality, ferociousness, viciousness
Type of:
cruelness, cruelty, harshness
the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

n a brutal barbarous savage act

Synonyms:
barbarism, barbarity, brutality
Type of:
atrocity, inhumanity
an act of atrocious cruelty
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