Synonyms of savagery

savagery

noun

ˈsa-vij-rē 

as in cruelty

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

a study of the savagery shown by soldiers in wartime

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cruelty
• brutality
• barbarity
• atrocity
• savageness
• inhumanity
• sadism
• heartlessness
• viciousness
• murderousness
• cruelness
• fiendishness
• truculence
• barbarousness
• wantonness
• ruthlessness
• inhumanness
• ferocity
• mercilessness
• atrociousness
• ferociousness
• pitilessness
• fierceness
• meanness
• grimness
• bloodthirstiness
• oppressiveness
• bloodlust
• malevolence
• malignity
• spitefulness
• hatefulness
• maliciousness
• hard-heartedness
• sanguinity
• unfeelingness
• fellness
• harshness
• nastiness
• sanguineness
• cattiness
• despitefulness
• heavy-handedness
• hardhandedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humanity
• sympathy
• compassion
• kindness
• humaneness
• benignity
• tenderness
• warmth
• tenderheartedness
• kindheartedness
• warmness
• mercy
• good-heartedness
• pity
• clemency
• leniency
• warmheartedness
• charitableness
• mercifulness

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of savagery

There’s an earthy savagery at the heart of Eden that consumes not just the people onscreen but the people in the audience, too; our own bloodlust is provoked, as if to prove the point that there’s something rotten lurking in the hearts of all people. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024

Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world. —Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024

The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests. —Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

There is no real bloodshed in Red Rooms, but there is a kind of spiritual savagery. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024