Meaning of Savagery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.
   uncountable
2. A violent act of cruelty.
   countable
3. Savages collectively; the world of savages.
   countable, uncountable
4. Wild growth of plants.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.””

“They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.”

“[…] they […] made, amongst other features, lead ponds. With their departure these lands once more reverted to savagery; gardening, along with virtually all aspects of culture, disappeared and with it the man-made water gardens.”

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