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savagery

noun
/ˈsæv.ɪd͡ʒ.ɹɪ/

Etymology

From savage + -ry.

  1. derived from silvāticus
  2. derived from salvāticus
  3. derived from sauvage
  4. inherited from savage
  5. formed as savagery — “savage + -ry”

Definitions

  1. Savage or brutal behaviour

    Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.

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

  2. A violent act of cruelty.

  3. Savages collectively

    Savages collectively; the world of savages.

    • They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Wild growth of plants.

      • […] 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at savagery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01savagery02barbarity03barbaric04uncivilized05civilization06civilizing07civilize08civilise

A definitional loop anchored at savagery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at savagery

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA