savageryEnglishOxford American Thesaurussavagery noun the appalling savagery of the attack: brutality, ferocity, fierceness, violence, viciousness, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, barbarousness, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, inhumanity, heartlessness; rare ferity. ▷antonyms mildness, gentleness.