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/ˈblʌdˌlʌst/ · noun
A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture..
Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.
Use bloodlust when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bloodlust means A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture..
Common synonyms include ferocity, savagery, barbarism, bloodthirst.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.
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