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