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| Main Entry: | savagery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelty |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, brutality, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fierceness, inhumanity, insensibility, malice, malignity, persecution, rancor, sadism, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, truculency, venom, viciousness, wickedness, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, fiendishness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, insensitiveness, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, ruthlessness, savageness, unfeelingness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | brutality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruel treatment |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, cruelty, ferocity, inhumanity, sadism, third degree, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, choke hold, fierceness, grossness, ruthlessness, savageness, savagery, unfeelingness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | gentleness, kindness, niceness, humaneness |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | barbarism, barbarity, coarseness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, inhumanity, insensibility, malice, persecution, rancor, sadism, severity, spite, torture, venom, wickedness, animality, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coldness, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, insensitiveness, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, ruthlessness, savageness, savagery, spitefulness, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | ferocity |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fierceness |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, brutality, cruelty, violence, bloodthirstiness, ferociousness, murderousness, savagery, viciousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | fury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, wrath |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, asperity, energy, ferocity, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rage, rise, severity, sore, stew*, storm*, turbulence, vehemence, violence, boiling point, conniption, fierceness, impetuosity, rabidity, rampancy, savagery, slow burn, tempestuousness |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
| Antonyms: | calm, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inhumanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of compassion |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarism, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, violence, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, cold-bloodedness, heartlessness, maliciousness, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness |
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
| Synonyms: | abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, severity, storm, struggle, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, bestiality, brute force, destructiveness, fierceness, murderousness, savagery, sharpness, storminess, terrorism, wildness |
| Antonyms: | peace, passivity, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | crime against humanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity |
| Synonyms: | enormity, evil, genocide, outrage, war crime, savagery |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action |
| Synonyms: | abomination, barbarity, brutality, crime, enormity, evil, horror, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, monstrosity, offense, outrage, wrong, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasantness |
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