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Ferocity

Ferocity Meaning & Definition
Ferocity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ferocity?

[n] the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ferocity: fierceness | furiousness | fury | vehemence | violence | wildness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ferocity: aggression | aggressiveness | animality | antagonism | atrociousness | barbarity | barbarousness | beastliness | bellicism | bellicosity | belligerence | belligerency | bestiality | bloodiness | bloodlust | bloodthirst | bloodthirstiness | bloody-mindedness | brutality | brutalness | brutishness | cannibalism | chauvinism | combativeness | contentiousness | cruelness | cruelty | ferociousness | fiendishness | fierceness | fight | hostility | inhumaneness | inhumanity | jingoism | martialism | militancy | militarism | pugnaciousness | pugnacity | quarrelsomeness | ruthlessness | saber rattling | sadism | sadistic cruelty | sanguineousness | savagery | truculence | unfriendliness | unpeacefulness | vandalism | viciousness | violence | wanton cruelty | warmongering | warpath

See Also | intensity | intensiveness

Ferocity In Webster's Dictionary

\Fe*roc"i*ty\, n. [L. ferocitas, fr. ferox, -ocis, fierce, kin to ferus wild: cf. F. ferocit['e]. See {Fierce}.] Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. --Macaulay.

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