bloodthirstiness
Lust for violence
Bloodthirstiness is an eager desire for violence or killing.
The word describes a cruel appetite for bloodshed, whether in people, animals, or fictional creatures: the bloodthirstiness of the warlord, critics condemned the film's bloodthirstiness.
It often characterizes not just willingness to kill but pleasure in it.
Pleasure from inflicting pain
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- barbaritySavage or cruel behavior
ferocity · mercilessness · ruthlessness · inhumanity · pitilessness · cold-bloodedness · malevolence · fiendishness
Defeating and seizing control
- pillageViolent theft of goods
- plunderGoods seized violently
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- slaughterKilling for meat
carnage · warfare · militarism · marauding · raiding · warmongering · bellicosity · aggression
sadism
Pleasure from inflicting pain
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
barbarity · ferocity · mercilessness · ruthlessness · inhumanity · pitilessness · cold-bloodedness · malevolence · fiendishness · heartlessness
conquest
Defeating and seizing control
slaughter · carnage · warfare · militarism · marauding · raiding · warmongering · bellicosity · aggression · invasion
fury
Intense violent anger
berserk · bloodlust · vengeance · murderous · seething · animosity · hostility · spite · malice · vindictiveness
bloodthirstinesspacifism
Antiwar moral stance
peacefulness · nonviolence · compassion · mercy · gentleness
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