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savageness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun savageness has 1 sense
- savageness(n = noun.attribute) savagery - the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums" is a kind of ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
Derived forms adjective savage3, adjective savage1, adjective savage2, adjective savage4
CIDE DICTIONARY
savageness, n.
The state or quality of being savage. [1913 Webster]
"Wolves and bears, they say,
Casting their savageness aside have done
Like offices of pity." [1913 Webster]
Casting their savageness aside have done
Like offices of pity." [1913 Webster]
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