savagery

sav·age·ry  (svj-r)

n. pl. sav·age·ries

1. The quality or condition of being savage.

2. An act of violent cruelty.

3. Savage behavior or nature; barbarity.

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savagery [ˈsævɪdʒrɪ]

n pl -ries

1. an uncivilized condition

2. a savage act or nature

3. savages collectively

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Savagery savage beasts or savage people, collectively; wild vegetation, 1599.

Example: the savagery that roamed in that great forest, 1867.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	savagery - the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums" savageness ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness, fury - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
	2.	savagery - the trait of extreme cruelty brutality, ferociousness, viciousness cruelness, cruelty, harshness - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
	3.	savagery - a brutal barbarous savage act barbarism, barbarity, brutality atrocity, inhumanity - an act of atrocious cruelty

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savagery

noun cruelty, brutality, ferocity, ruthlessness, sadism, inhumanity, barbarity, viciousness, bestiality, fierceness, bloodthirstiness the sheer savagery of war

Translations

savagery [ˈsævɪdʒrɪ] N

1. (= violence) [of attack, blow] → ferocidad f, violencia f; [of criticism] → saña f, ferocidad f
the sheer savagery of war → el puro salvajismo or la pura brutalidad de la guerra

2. (= primitiveness) → salvajismo m, estado m salvaje

3. (= drastic nature) [of cuts, reductions] → radicalidad f, carácter m drástico

savagery [ˈsævɪdʒəri] n (= cruelty, violence) → sauvagerie f

savagery

n

(of tribe, people) → Wildheit f

(= cruelty) → Grausamkeit f; (of attack) → Brutalität f; (of treatment, prison life, cuts) → brutale Härte; the savageries committed … → die Grausamkeiten or Gräueltaten pl → …

savagery [ˈsævɪdʒrɪ] n → ferocia