1 (violence) [of attack, blow] ferocidad (f); violencia (f); [of criticism] saña (f); ferocidad (f) the sheer savagery of war el puro salvajismo or la pura brutalidad de la guerra
2 (primitiveness) salvajismo (m); estado (m) salvaje they were not expected to measure progress from savagery to civilization in terms of voting rights or economic independence the degenerate descendants of Hamitic lineages, whose savagery not even Christendom's invincible hand has yet been able to overcome he tried to domesticate a wild animal, and when it became adult it reverted to its natural savagery