savagery

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English savage Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye English -ry English savagery From savage + -ry.

1. 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; 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. 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.”