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The trait of extreme cruelty
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savageness
Word definitions for savageness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being savage or behaving savagely.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Savageness \Sav"age*ness\, n. The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness , brutality , viciousness , savagery ]
Usage examples of savageness.
This charming society is nearly extinct now: of the larger animals there only remain the bear, who minds his own business more thoroughly than any person I know, and the deer, who would like to be friendly with men, but whose winning face and gentle ways are no protection from the savageness of man, and who is treated with the same unpitying destruction as the snarling catamount.
Granting that the White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food for their more common, daily appetites.
And the stories grow and grow of the savageness of the maroons until one has to wonder whether those parts of the tales grew in the telling, too.
But as he slew the last the parent monster returned and, seeing what had chanced with her fledglings, she screamed aloud her rage and struck down at Huon so that her beak cut deeply into his shoulder and he was like to be overborne and killed by the savageness of her attack.