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Savageness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Wildness; an untamed, uncultivated or uncivilized state; barbarism. Hence,

2. Cruelty; barbarousness.

3. Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savageness aside, have done like offices of pity.

Savageness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being savage.