savagery
Uncivilized violent behavior
Savagery is violent, brutal, or cruel behavior—the conduct of someone acting without restraint or civilization: The savagery of the attack shocked investigators.
It can describe physical violence or fierce verbal assault.
The word implies something primitive or animalistic, though historically it was applied prejudicially to non-European peoples.
The film depicts war in all its savagery.
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- violenceHarmful physical force
- inhumanityExtreme cruelty toward others
mercilessness · bloodthirstiness · sadism · ruthlessness · torture · barbarism · heinousness · pitilessness
Intense violent anger
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- frenzyViolent mental agitation
- intensityStrength or force level
wrath · destructiveness · hostility · belligerence · pugnacity · truculence · fierceness · rampage
Innate behavioral tendency
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- hunter-gathererPre-farming subsistence lifestyle
tribal · primitive · raw · elemental · territorial · paleolithic · caveman · feral
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- jungleDense tropical forest
- feralWild after domestication
- beastlySavagely cruel or unpleasant
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
untamed · wildlife · nature · lawlessness · frontier · outback · hinterland · uncharted
Defeating and seizing control
- pillageViolent theft of goods
- raidSudden armed incursion
- plunderGoods seized violently
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
scorched-earth · devastation · annihilation · imperialism · colonization · enslavement · subjugation · marauding
cruelty
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- violenceHarmful physical force
inhumanity · mercilessness · bloodthirstiness · sadism · ruthlessness · torture · barbarism · heinousness · pitilessness · bloodshed
fury
Intense violent anger
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- frenzyViolent mental agitation
intensity · wrath · destructiveness · hostility · belligerence · pugnacity · truculence · fierceness · rampage · onslaught
instinct
Innate behavioral tendency
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- ancestralOf one's forebears
hunter-gatherer · tribal · primitive · raw · elemental · territorial · paleolithic · caveman · feral · untamed
wilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
predatory · untamed · wildlife · nature · lawlessness · frontier · outback · hinterland · uncharted · uncivilized
conquest
Defeating and seizing control
genocide · scorched-earth · devastation · annihilation · imperialism · colonization · enslavement · subjugation · marauding · looting
- aggressionhostility, violence, attack, fight, combativeness
- dangersdanger, peril, hazard, risk, menace
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
- wildnesswildness, wilds, natural state, ferocity, fierceness
- colonialismcolony, colonization, colonial rule, colonial powers, colonizer
- abusemistreatment, domestic abuse, elder abuse, maltreatment, cruelty
savagerykindness
Considerate, caring disposition
compassion · mercy · humanity · gentleness · humaneness
savagerycivilization
Advanced organized human society
civility · refinement · cultivation · sophistication · culture
savagerygentleness
Soft, kind demeanor
mildness · peacefulness · tameness · docility · meekness
- savage beast
- turns savage
- savage beauty
- 21 SavageBritish-born rapper
- Savage GardenLate-90s Australian pop act
- noble savageIdealized primitive innocence