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All savagery synonyms

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noun savagery

  • callousness — made hard; hardened.
  • crudeness — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
  • atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
  • brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
  • cruelness — The state of being cruel; cruelty.
  • irateness — The state of being irate.
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • fierceness — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
  • crime against humanity — repeated actions undertaken by, or condoned by, a government, deemed to infringe human dignity and safety, such as rape, torture, murder, etc
  • cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
  • inhumanness — Quality of being inhuman.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • boiling point — The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which it starts to change into steam or vapour. For example, the boiling point of water is 100° centigrade.
  • barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
  • barbarity — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
  • wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
  • localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious
  • impetuosity — the quality or condition of being impetuous.
  • murderousness — The state or condition of being murderous.
  • fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
  • insensitiveness — Quality of being insensitive.
  • hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
  • flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
  • inhumanity — the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.
  • rabidity — irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.
  • beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
  • bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
  • heartlessness — The characteristic of being heartless.
  • malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
  • mercilessness — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
  • flareup — a sudden flaring up of flame or light.
  • fury — unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.

adjective savagery

  • wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.

adj savagery

  • ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
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