savageness (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. fĕrĭtas (wildness, brutality)2. immānĭtas (inhuman barbarousness or cruelty)3. saevĭtia (fierce cruelty)4. atrōcĭtas (stern, unrelenting cruelty)5. torvĭtas (used of s. of expression) • savageness (subs.): 1. fĕrĭtas (wildness, brutality): Ov. F. 4, 103 (s. tauri). Join: feritas et immanitas, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 32. Rather stronger, efferitas (rare): id. Sext. 42, 91. 2. immānĭtas (inhuman barbarousness or cruelty): a fierceness and wild s., feritas et agrestis i., Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60. the roughness and s. of nature, asperitas et i. naturae, Cic. Am. 23, 87. 3. saevĭtia (fierce cruelty): Sall. J. 7 (hostium s.), Tac. Ann. 1, 67 (hostium s.), Plin. 2, 47, 47, fin. (tempestatum s.). 4. atrōcĭtas (stern, unrelenting cruelty): s. of character, a. morum, Tac. A. 4, 13: Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 11 (a. animi). 5. torvĭtas (used of s. of expression): Tac. H. 2, 9, fin. (vultus t.).