beastliness
Savage, vile behavior
Beastliness is the quality of being like a beast—brutal, crude, or savagely uncivilized.
The word carries moral weight: beastliness suggests behavior that abandons human decency for animal impulse.
In milder British usage, beastliness can mean simple unpleasantness or nastiness: the beastliness of the weather, the general beastliness of the whole affair.
Extreme, violent cruelty
- barbarismSavage, uncivilized behavior
- ferocityExtreme violent intensity
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- brutishnessCrude, animal-like cruelty
animality · bloodthirstiness · fierceness · aggression · violence · mercilessness · ruthlessness · pugnacity
Pleasure from inflicting pain
- malevolenceActive ill will
- maliceIntent to cause harm
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
- heartlessnessLack of compassion
pitilessness · cold-bloodedness · spitefulness · fiendishness · monstrousness · wickedness · depravity · heinousness
Wild after domestication
- untamedNot domesticated
- wildnessUntamed, uncontrolled state
- primalFirst in origin
- instinctualDriven by natural impulse
predatory · animal · brutish · uncivilized · primitive · base · carnal · unrefined
Quality provoking revulsion
- foulnessOffensive, corrupt quality
- vilenessDespicable quality
- loathsomenessQuality inspiring strong disgust
- offensivenessQuality of causing affront
repugnance · abhorrence · odiousness · nastiness · grossness · squalor · filthiness · sordidness
savagery
Extreme, violent cruelty
- barbarismSavage, uncivilized behavior
- ferocityExtreme violent intensity
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
brutishness · animality · bloodthirstiness · fierceness · aggression · violence · mercilessness · ruthlessness · pugnacity · belligerence
sadism
Pleasure from inflicting pain
- malevolenceActive ill will
- maliceIntent to cause harm
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
heartlessness · pitilessness · cold-bloodedness · spitefulness · fiendishness · monstrousness · wickedness · depravity · heinousness · remorselessness
feral
Wild after domestication
instinctual · predatory · animal · brutish · uncivilized · primitive · base · carnal · unrefined · uncouth
disgustingness
Quality provoking revulsion
- foulnessOffensive, corrupt quality
- vilenessDespicable quality
- loathsomenessQuality inspiring strong disgust
offensiveness · repugnance · abhorrence · odiousness · nastiness · grossness · squalor · filthiness · sordidness · unpleasantness
- primal instinctsinstinct, primal, feral, savage, predator
- wildnesswildness, wilds, natural state, savagery, ferocity
- malevolencemalevolence, cruelty, viciousness, malice, spite
- horrorshorror, dread, terror, fright, dreadfulness
- violenceviolence, physical attack, brutality, physical violence, aggression
beastlinesskindness
Considerate, caring disposition
benevolence · compassion · kindheartedness · tenderheartedness · gentleness
beastlinessrefinement
Elegance of manner
gentility · elegance · civility · cultivation · polish
beastlinessnobility
Titled ruling class
spirituality · high-mindedness · humanity · intellectuality · soulfulness
beast, beasts, beastly, bestial, bestiality, bestiary, beastlier, bestialize