SAVAGENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does savageness mean? 

• SAVAGENESS (noun)
  The noun SAVAGENESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being untamed and ferocious

  Familiarity information: SAVAGENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVAGENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being untamed and ferocious

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

savageness; savagery

Context example:

a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums

Hypernyms ("savageness" is a kind of...):

ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness (the property of being wild or turbulent)

Derivation:

savage (without civilizing influences)

savage ((of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)

savage (wild and menacing)

savage (marked by extreme and violent energy)

 Context examples 

Savageness was a part of his make-up, but the savageness thus developed exceeded his make- up.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

From the bull’s side, just forward of the flank, protruded a feathered arrow-end, which accounted for his savageness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was a compromise that approximated the truth, though it flattered not the school of god, while it challenged the brute-savageness of the school of clod.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)