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[syn: savageness, savagery]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Savageness \Sav"age*ness\, 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.                    --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
savageness
    n 1: 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" [syn: savageness,
         savagery]