What does savagery mean?

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

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word savagery.

Princeton's WordNet

  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"

  2. ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagerynoun

    the trait of extreme cruelty

  3. brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagerynoun

    a brutal barbarous savage act

Wiktionary

  1. savagerynoun

    the status of being savage

  2. savagerynoun

    a violent act of cruelty

  3. savagerynoun

    savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Savagerynoun

    Etymology: from savage.

    This is the bloodiest shame,
    The wildest savag’ry, the vilest stroke,
    That ever wall-ey’d wrath, or staring rage,
    Presented to the tears of soft remorse. William Shakespeare, King John.

    Her fallow lees
    The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory,
    Doth root upon; while that the culter rusts,
    That should deracinate such savagery. William Shakespeare, H. V.

Wikipedia

  1. savagery

    Skinless is an American death metal band from Glens Falls, New York. The band formed in 1992 and disbanded in 2011, but reformed in 2013.

ChatGPT

  1. savagery

    Savagery refers to brutal, violent, fierce, or an uncivilized behavior or actions that often lack compassion and disregard for human decency or norms of society. It can also imply a state of being primitive or lacking the refinement of culture and civilization.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Savagerynoun

    the state of being savage; savageness; savagism

  2. Savagerynoun

    an act of cruelty; barbarity

  3. Savagerynoun

    wild growth, as of plants

  4. Etymology: [F. sauvagerie.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of savagery in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of savagery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of savagery in a Sentence

  1. Mariana Fulger:

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

  2. Tom Williamson:

    We can mark a day on the calendar where America has fallen to a new low. This is now the condoning of taking matters, and the law, into you own hands and going to any lengths - even jungle savagery.

  3. Serge Lecomte:

    It is cruel savagery of a kind we have rarely seen before, is it a cult? Cruelty towards animals is the precursor to cruelty towards humans.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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