Savagery

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being savage.
  • noun. An act of violent cruelty.
  • noun. Savage behavior or nature; barbarity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Savage or uncivilized state or condition; a state of barbarism.
  • noun. Savage or barbarous nature, disposition, conduct, or actions; barbarity.
  • noun. Wild growth, as of plants; wildness, as of nature.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
  • noun. An act of cruelty; barbarity.
  • noun. Wild growth, as of plants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the status of being savage
  • noun. a violent act of cruelty
  • noun. savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a brutal barbarous savage act
  • noun. the trait of extreme cruelty
  • noun. the property of being untamed and ferocious
  • Word Usage
    "There is a realm of anthropology in this lower state of mankind which we call savagery, that is hard to understand from the standpoint of modern civilization, where science, theology, religion, medicine and the esthetic arts are developed as more or less discrete subjects."
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