Synonyms for savagery
ˈsæv ɪdʒ risav·a·ge·ry

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1. savagery

   Synonyms:
   barbarism, boorishness, brutality, clownishness, coarseness, grossness, rudeness, rusticity, vulgarity

   Antonyms:
   civilization, cultivation, culture, elegance, politeness, refinement

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. savageness, savagerynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, barbarism, savageness, viciousness, ferociousness

2. ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagerynoun

   the trait of extreme cruelty

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, barbarism, savageness, viciousness, ferociousness

3. brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagerynoun

   a brutal barbarous savage act

   Synonyms:
   atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, savageness, viciousness, barbarism, brutality, heinousness, barbarity, ferociousness

Matched Categories

1. • Cruelty
   • Ferocity

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1. List of paraphrases for "savagery":

   barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savage, barbaric, cruelty, barbarous

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How to use savagery in a sentence?

1. Hossein Salami:

   The blinded enemies of Iran, particularly the planners and coordinators of this cowardly act of terrorism must understand that such savagery will not cause a single wrinkle in our collective will to conquer bright scientific horizons, and be aware that the difficult revenge awaiting them is already an integral part of our work ! .

2. Human Rights Watch:

   Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

3. Prakhar Joshi:

   When I started collecting stories, my first few stories were very traumatic. They shook me to the core. I knew riots had happened, but I never knew the scale of the savagery.

4. Mariana Fulger:

   Where education is lacking, there is savagery, there is a lot of naivety.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   [Obama last night] said if you talk about the Muslims in a bad way, that's a recruiter for ISIS. Guantanamo was a recruiter for ISIS. When the fact is the cruelty and the savagery.... is the recruiter for ISIS, [The president] locates the origin of all that recruiting in what we do, and he thinks therefore, the cue is for us to do as little as possible. It’s an insane strategic view of the world, but he actually holds it.