- savagism
- noun Date: 1796 savagery
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
savagism
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Savagism — Sav a*gism, n. The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
savagism — /sav euh jiz euhm/, n. barbarism; savagery. [1790 1800; SAVAGE + ISM] * * * … Universalium
savagism — n. Barbarism, savagery … New dictionary of synonyms
savagism — sav·ag·ism … English syllables
savagism — ˈsaviˌjizəm, vēˌ , vəˌ noun ( s) Etymology: savage (I) + ism : savagery … Useful english dictionary
Savagery — Sav age*ry (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.] 1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. [1913 Webster] A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster] 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. [1913 Webster] The wildest savagery, the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
animality — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Animalia, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animalism, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bawdiness, beastliness, beasts, beasts of field,… … Moby Thesaurus
barbarism — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, Irish bull, Neanderthalism, age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste, barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony,… … Moby Thesaurus
barbarity — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody mindedness, brutality,… … Moby Thesaurus
bestiality — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, abominableness, anal intercourse, animalism, animality, atrociousness, autoeroticism, awfulness, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bloodiness, bloodlust,… … Moby Thesaurus
