ferocity

Meaning

The condition of being ferocious.

Synonyms

fierceness

cruelty

savagery

fury

wildness

atrocity

furiousness

violence

brutality

savageness

barbarity

vehemence

ferociousness

inhumanity

heinousness

rage

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rigor

rigour

ruthlessness

sternness

malignancy

obduracy

inclementness

rigidity

badness

rigorousness

rigourousness

roughness

rudeness

viciosity

burr

bur

severity

vitiosity

stiffness

strenuousness

strictness

thuggery

tigerishness

truculence

truculency

bitterness

viciousness

wickedness

barbarism

hardness

harshness

wrath

inclemency

inhospitableness

cruelness

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fəˈɹɑsɪti/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French férocité, from Latin ferocitas, from ferox (“fierce”), from ferus (“wild, savage, fierce”).