Ferocity \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.
[1913 Webster]
The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ferocity
n : the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence,
violence, wildness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
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