1. The property of being untamed and ferocious
   "a craving for barbaric splendour, for savagery and colour and the throb of drums"
   - savageness 
2. The trait of extreme cruelty
   - ferociousness, brutality, viciousness 
3. A brutal barbarous savage act
   - brutality, barbarity, barbarism

Derived forms: savageries

See also: savage

Type of: atrocity, cruelness, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, harshness, inhumanity, vehemence, vehemency, violence, wildness

Encyclopedia: Savagery

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• fisheye lens
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