savagismn.
/ˈsavᵻdʒɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsævᵻˌdʒɪz(ə)m/ The state or quality of being primitive or uncivilized, savagery; (also) savage behaviour, cruelty, brutality. Also: an instance of this.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
1665 E. Billing Certaine Sound 11 The right generous English Spirit abhors such Salvagism as Hell.
1796 Monthly Mag. July 465/2 Virtues..could alone keep the world from that relapse into savagism to which mankind is ever tending.
1798 R. P. Tour in Wales (MS) 30 We began to omit clambering among..ruins, merely for the assurance of Superstition and Savageism having existed when these terror striking fabrics were erected.
1841 M. Hennell in C. Bray Philos. Necess. II. 616 Fourier..divides the history of humanity into four forms or periods, incoherently social—savagism, patriarchalism, barbarism and civilization.
1890 H. H. Bancroft Ess. & Misc. xix. 680 Let not theology be filled with horror, and insult the almighty by saying that savagisms and superstitions please him better than the exercise of that noblest of faculties.
1900 Railroad Telegrapher Aug. 640/2 Brute force means really the perpetuation of savagism in its most repulsive forms.
1955 Pacific Northwest Q. 46 29/2 They were obliged to make their picture of him [sc. the noble savage] consistent with the prevailing idea of savagism.
2000 Kansas Anthropologist 21 62/1 Instead of civil progression, people would revert to some stage of savagism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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