bloodlust
Craving for violence
Bloodlust is an intense, often uncontrollable desire to kill or inflict violence.
The word suggests a primal craving—something beyond anger or aggression: The soldiers were overtaken by bloodlust.
In gaming and fantasy contexts, bloodlust often describes a frenzied state that enhances combat ability: The berserker's bloodlust made him nearly unstoppable.
Widespread violent death
- slaughterKilling for meat
- killingCausing death deliberately
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- butcherySavage killing
gore · brutality · savagery · ferocity · rampage · mayhem · destruction · cruelty
Wildly, violently uncontrolled
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- feverElevated body temperature
madness · rage · fury · wildness · voracity · ecstasy · thrill · excitement
Antagonistic disposition toward others
- belligerenceWarlike aggression
- combativenessInclination toward conflict
- pugnacityInclination to quarrel
- bellicosityInclination toward hostility
antagonism · truculence · wrath · anger · vindictiveness · malevolence · vengeance · hatred
carnage
Widespread violent death
butchery · gore · brutality · savagery · ferocity · rampage · mayhem · destruction · cruelty · viciousness
berserk
Wildly, violently uncontrolled
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
fever · madness · rage · fury · wildness · voracity · ecstasy · thrill · excitement · intoxication
hostility
Antagonistic disposition toward others
- belligerenceWarlike aggression
- combativenessInclination toward conflict
- pugnacityInclination to quarrel
bellicosity · antagonism · truculence · wrath · anger · vindictiveness · malevolence · vengeance · hatred · murderous
- Vampiresvampire, vampires, vampirism, fangs, coffin
- desireswant, wish, desire, wanting, yearning
- frenzyfrenzy, mania, hysteria, madness, fury
- urgesurge, impulse, sudden urge, craving, compulsion
- predator instinctsprey drive, stalking, pouncing, chasing, pursuit
- primal instinctsinstinct, primal, feral, savage, predator
bloodlustmercy
Compassion toward offenders
restraint · pacifism · nonviolence · peacefulness · forbearance
bloodlustcompassion
Concern for others' distress
benevolence · kindness · tenderness · gentleness · mercy