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1 Savagery -- rank: 1000

Savagery definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SAV'AGERY, n. 1. Wild ... 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] Merriam Webster's noun (plural -ries) Date: 1597 1. a ... or violence 2. an uncivilized state Webster's 1913 Dictionary Savagery Sav"age*ry (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.] 1. The ...

2 Brutality -- rank: 419

... 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery] 2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery] Merriam Webster's noun (plural -ties) Date: 1549 1. the ... rankness, repulsiveness, rigor, rottenness, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, scandalousness, scurviness, severity, shabbiness, shamefulness, sharpness, shoddiness, sordidness, squalidness ...

3 Barbarity -- rank: 419

... 2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery] Merriam Webster's noun (plural -ties) Date: circa 1570 1 ... think that it is extremely cruel. ...the barbarity of war. = savagery N-VAR [disapproval] Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n ... murderousness, philistinism, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, severity, sharpness, terrorism, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation ...

4 barbarism -- rank: 419

... 1: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 15th century 1. a. a ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Savagism, savage state, savagery, barbarous state, uncivilized condition. 2. Rudeness, roughness, brutality, savageness, harshness ... misuse, neologism, paganism, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, roughness, rudeness, savagery, savagism, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shibboleth, slang, slip, slipshod construction, solecism, spoonerism ...

5 INNOCENTS, MASSACRE OF THE -- rank: 419

... the incident is usually discussed with exclusive reference to the savagery involved. By many it is affirmed that we have here ... even if the question turned entirely upon the point of savagery. But there is far more than savagery in the incident. (a) In the first place there is ...

6 Vandalism -- rank: 331

... of vandalism. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Barbarity, savagery. Moby Thesaurus acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, badness, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness ... rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, shambles, sharpness, slaughter, spoliation, terrorism, truculence, undoing, ungentleness, vehemence ...

7 Heathenism -- rank: 331

... Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Paganism, Gentilism. 2. Barbarism, savagery, cruelty, inhumanity, heathenishness. Moby Thesaurus Druidism, Gothicism, Parsiism, Sabaism, Zoroastrianism ... idolomancy, image worship, pagandom, paganism, paganry, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, savagery, snake worship, star worship, sun worship, tree worship, unenlightenment

8 Savagism -- rank: 331

... original savagism of men. Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1796 savagery Webster's 1913 Dictionary Savagism Sav"a*gism, n. The ... and rudeness. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Barbarism, savagery.

9 Savageness -- rank: 331

... savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums" [syn: savageness, savagery] Merriam Webster's noun see savage I Webster's 1913 ...

10 Atrocity -- rank: 331

... Heinousness, atrociousness, horrible cruelty, enormity, flagrancy, villany, flagitiousness, depravity, wickedness, savagery, ferocity. 2. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany, horror, enormity, act of ... pollution, profanation, put-down, raw deal, reprobacy, rigor, roughness, sacrilege, savagery, scandal, scoff, scurrility, severity, shame, sharpness, sin, sin of commission ...

11 Pitilessness -- rank: 209

... inhumanity, insensitivity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, obduracy, rigor, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, terrorism, unfeeling, ungentleness, unmercifulness, unnaturalness, unresponsiveness, vandalism, vehemence ...

12 Paganism -- rank: 209

... idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, pagandom, paganry, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, savagery, snake worship, star worship, sun worship, tree worship, unenlightenment

13 Outrage -- rank: 209

... ravish, raw deal, resentment, rile, rough, rough up, run, savage, savagery, scathe, scoff, scoff at, scurrility, shock, sin, sin of commission ...

14 Lurid -- rank: 209

... r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life" 2: glaringly vivid and graphic ...

15 Intensity -- rank: 209

... power, prodigiousness, pure color, quantum, resolution, richness, rigor, roughness, saturation, savagery, seriousness, severity, sharpness, sincerity, sonority, sonorousness, spirit, strength, strenuousness, stupendousness ...