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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, age of ignorance, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, dark, dark age, darkness, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, heathenism, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, paganism, philistinism, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagism, severity, sharpness, terrorism, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, unenlightenment, ungentleness, unrefinement, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness
Dictionary Results for savagery:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
savagery
    n 1: 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" [syn: savageness,
         savagery]
    2: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness,
       brutality, viciousness, savagery]
    3: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity,
       barbarism, savagery]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Savagery \Sav"age*ry\ (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.]
   1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
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            A like work of primeval savagery.     --C. Kingsley.
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   2. An act of cruelty; barbarity.
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            The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
            That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
            Presented to the tears of soft remorse. --Shak.
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   3. Wild growth, as of plants. --Shak.
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