About The Word Ferocity
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Ferocity
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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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