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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of savagery

Unlike his sister Athena (who was associated with military strategy and other relatively civilized aspects of warfare), Ares represented pure savagery. —Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025

First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime. —Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024

When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery. —Chris Klimek, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024

Whatever Pratt imagined for Indian schools as an answer to Indian persecution, the schools became, in the early decades especially, places of repression, punishment, and occasional savagery. —Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024