savageness

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savageness - 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.
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savageness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]