Savagery

Definitions: Savagery

Savagery

Noun

1. The trait of extreme cruelty.

2. A brutal barbarous savage act.

Date "savagery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Etymology: Savagery \Sav"age*ry\, noun. [French expression sauvagerie.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Savagery

Synonyms: barbarism (n), barbarity (n), brutality (n), ferociousness (n), savageness (n), viciousness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Malevolence	Hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness; Adjective: brutality, savagery; ferity, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Savagery

English words defined with "savagery": Degenerationist ♦ lurid ♦ Uncivilization. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

In my community, he's feared for his savagery. You Italians, you think you're so tough Kosygin will rip your heart out, eat it, and no think twice. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

A strange new world rises from the old. A world of savagery, super-science, and sorcery. (Thundarr the Barbarian; writing credit: Susan Casey; Nancy Naschke)

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Domain	Title
Books	Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization (reference) Andrew! Savagery from the Sea (reference) Evolution of Society from Primitive Savagery to the Industrial Republic (reference) Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific 1790-1900 (reference) Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: Civilisation and Savagery (reference) (more book examples)
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"Savagery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Savagery" is used about 163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	163	24,498

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "savagery": savagery-civilization'.
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Language		Translations for "savagery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		egërsi (atrocity, bestiality, callousness, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, furiosity, fury, ill-treatment, inclemency, rabidity, rabies, truculence, virulence), ashpërsi (acrimony, asperity, austerity, coarseness, dourness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness, severity, sharpness, toughness, tyranny). (various references)

Arabic		‏همجية (barbarity, wildness), ‏وحشية (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, butch, cannibalism, cruelty, devilry, feretory, ferocity, fierceness, inhumanity, ruffianism, shyness, thuggery, truculence), ‏الوحشية (bestiality). (various references)

Bulgarian		свирепост (ferocity, fierceness, truculence), варварство (barbarism, barbarity, heathenism, vandalism), зверство (atrocity, enormity), звещина, диващина, дивачество. (various references)

Czech		divoch (heathen, wild man), barbar (barbarian, caveman, heathen, tartarian, tatar). (various references)

Farsi		وحشیگری (Barbarism, Brutality, Vulgarity), ددودام , بیرحمی (Atrocity, Brutality, Sadism). (various references)

Finnish		villiys (savageness, wildness). (various references)

French		sauvagerie, brutalité, barbarie. (various references)

German		Wildheit (ferocity, fierceness, haggardness, jazziness, rabidness, rampancy, roughness, ruggedness, savageness, savageries, tigerishness, truculence, unruliness, wildness). (various references)

Greek		αγριότησ (cruelty, truculence, truculency, wildness), αγριότητα (cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, truculence, wildness). (various references)

Hebrew		פראיות, פראות (barbarity, ferity, ferocity, fierceness, truculence, wildness), אכזריות (cruelty, inhumanity, mercilessness), ברבריות (barbarism, barbarity, vandalism). (various references)

Hungarian		vadság (barbarity, ferocity, fierceness, gothicism, rampageousness, rampancy, rowdyism, ruffianism, savageness, severity, truculence, wildness), barbarizmus (barbarism, savageness). (various references)

Italian		ferocia (ferocity, wildness). (various references)

Pig Latin		avagerysay

Portuguese		selvageria (wildness), ferocidade (ferocity, ferrate, fierceness), estado selvagem (wilderness), crueldade (atrociousness, atrocity, bloodiness, cruelty, devilry, deviltry, fellness, harshness, oppression, severity), caráter selvagem, barbaridade (barbarity, barbarousness, inhumanity, ruffianism). (various references)

Romanian		sãlbãticie (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, primitiveness, ruggedness, savageness, truculence, wildness, wilds), ferocitate (atrocity, bloodthirstiness, cruelty, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness, savageness, truculence, wildness), cruzime (barbarity, brutality, callosity, cruelty, excess, feliness, fierceness, inhumanity), brutalitate (brutality, cruelty, roughness, violence), bãrbãrie (savageness). (various references)

Russian		дикость (ferity, wildness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		svirepost (atrocity, ferocity, fierceness, truculence, wantonness), divljina (wild, wilderness), divljaštvo (barbarism, barbarity, truculence). (various references)

Spanish		salvajismo (savageness). (various references)

Swedish		grymhet (atrocity, barbarity, bestiality, cruelty, ferocity), barbari (barbarism, barbarousness). (various references)

Thai		ความ�"ุร้าย (fierceness). (various references)

Turkish		yabanilik (brutishness, savageness), vahşilik (bestiality, brutality, brutishness, ferocity, heathenism, savageness, wildness), vahşiler, vahşet (atrocity, savageness). (various references)

Ukranian		незайманість (chastity, virginhood, virginity), жорстокість (asperity, atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferociousness, ferocity, harshness, severity), первісність (originality), дикість (ferociousness). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính t� n bạo (bloodiness, bloodthirstiness, inhumanity, savageness, truculence, truculency), tính độc ác (cruelty, devilishness, devilism, savageness), tình trạng man rợ (savageness), tình trạng không văn minh tính t� n ác (savageness), tình trạng dã man (barbarism, savageness). (various references)
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	barbaria, immanitas. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Savagery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Azagury, Favager, Sanagare, savager, savagry. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "savagery" (pronounced sa"vije'rē)
3	-e' r ē	actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-r-s-v-y"
	-1 letter: garveys, ravages, savager.
	-2 letters: agaves, garvey, graves, greasy, gyrase, ravage, savage, vagary, yagers.
	-3 letters: agars, agave, agers, areas, avers, avgas, eyras, gayer, gears, grave, gravy, grays, greys, gyres, gyves, ragas, rages, raves, rayas, resay, sager, sarge, saver, sayer, varas, yager, years.
	-4 letters: aery, agar, agas, ager, ages, area, ares, arse, asea, aver, aves, ayes, ears, easy, eras, ergs, eyas, eyra, gaes, gars, gave, gays, gear, gray, grey, gyre, gyve, raga, rage, rags, rase, rave, raya, rays, regs, revs, ryas, ryes, saga, sage, sagy, save, sear, sera, vara, vars, vary, vasa, vase, vera, very, yare, year, yeas.
	-5 letters: aas, aga, age, are, ars, ava, ave, aye, ays, ear, era, erg, ers, gae, gar, gas, gay, gey, rag, ras, ray, reg, res, rev, rya, rye, sae, sag, say, sea, seg, ser, var, vas, veg, yar, yea, yes.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-r-s-v-y"
	+2 letters: graveyards.
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