Synonyms for Savagery

Synonyms for "savagery" (95 found)

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Closest matches (19)

brutality ferociousness acuteness age of ignorance animality atrociousness atrocity barbarism barbarity barbarousness beastliness benightedness benightment bestiality bloodiness bloodlust

Noun(3 words)

barbarianism barbarism barbarity

Strong matches (29)

Related word relations

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More general

12 entries

atrocity cruelness cruelty ferocity fierceness furiousness fury harshness inhumanity vehemence violence wildness

Synonyms

3 entries

brutality ferociousness savageness

derived

2 entries

semisavagery sweet savagery

related to

14 entries

barbarism barbarity behaviour brutal brutality cruelness cruelty ferocity growth plant rudeness savage violent wild

Translations

37 translations across 20 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries

ὠμότης noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Armenian

2 entries

վայրենություն noun (being savage — see also savageness)
վայրենություն noun (act of cruelty)

Bulgarian

3 entries

дивачество noun (being savage — see also savageness)
жестокост noun (act of cruelty)
свирепост noun (act of cruelty)

Esperanto

1 entries

sovaĝeco noun (being savage — see also savageness)

French

1 entries

sauvagerie noun (being savage — see also savageness)

German

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Wildheit noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Greek

2 entries

αγριότητα noun (being savage — see also savageness)
αγριότητα noun (act of cruelty)

Hindi

2 entries

क्रूरता noun (being savage — see also savageness)
बर्बरता noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Ido

1 entries

sovajeso noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Irish

1 entries

fiántas noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Latin

1 entries

saevitia noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Macedonian

2 entries

дивјаштво noun (being savage — see also savageness)
дивјаштво noun (act of cruelty)

Māori

1 entries

taratutū noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Norwegian

3 entries

brutalitet noun (being savage — see also savageness)
grusomhet noun (act of cruelty)
villskap noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

وحشت noun (being savage — see also savageness)
وحشیلك noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Polish

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dzikość noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Portuguese

2 entries

selvageria noun (being savage — see also savageness)
selvageria noun (act of cruelty)

Russian

4 entries

ди́кость noun (being savage — see also savageness)
жесто́кость noun (act of cruelty)
зве́рство noun (act of cruelty)
свире́пость noun (act of cruelty)

Spanish

4 entries

salvajada noun (act of cruelty)
salvajería noun (act of cruelty)
salvajismo noun (act of cruelty)
selvatiquez noun (being savage — see also savageness)

Swedish

2 entries

barbari noun (being savage — see also savageness)
grymhet noun (act of cruelty)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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I don't tolerate savagery, much less in a country that claims to be democratic.

Source: tatoeba (10372847)

"People are fascinated with Harriet Tubman because they see her as an ordinary person who rose up against all odds to escape the savagery of slavery," said Donald Pinder, president of a group that runs the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, Maryland.

Source: tatoeba (11510551)

“For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”

Source: wiktionary

They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.

Source: wiktionary

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