savagery

Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.

“For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”

A violent act of cruelty.

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.

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.