ferocity
Meaning of ferocity
noun
- the state or quality of being ferocious.
the ferocity of the storm caught them by surprise
she hated him with a ferocity that astonished her
mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin ferocitas, from ferox, feroc- ‘fierce’.
Information about ferocity
- It is a name.
- The plural form of ferocity is: ferocities.
- Languages in which ferocity is used:
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Hyphenation of ferocity
fe-roc-ity
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- ferocity is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ferocity synonyms
Meaning fierceness:
fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
Meaning the quality of being fierce or cruel:
Meaning savage physical violence; great cruelty:
Meaning extreme cruelty or brutality:
Meaning feelings of anger or antipathy resulting in hostile or violent behaviour; readiness to attack or confront:
Meaning the quality of lacking pity or compassion for others:
Meaning cruel behaviour or attitudes:
Meaning extremely cruel and brutal behaviour:
Meaning the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others:
Meaning the quality of being intense:
Meaning the fact or condition of being severe:
Meaning the degree to which something is extreme:
Meaning strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement:
Meaning the quality or state of being physically strong:
Meaning the state or quality of being wild or savage:
ferocity antonyms
Meaning the quality of being kind, tender, or mild-mannered:
Words that rhyme with ferocity
City, city, acinacity, aromacity, audacity, beneplacity, bibacity, capacity, carnivoracity, contumacity, dicacity, disputacity, edacity, efficacity, feracity, fugacity, furacity, incapacity, inefficacity, insagacity, intracity, inveracity, loquacity, megacity, mendacity, minacity, mordacity, nonopacity, nonsequacity, nonveracity, nugacity, omnivoracity, opacity, overcapacity, overtenacity, perspicacity, pertinacity, pervicacity, predacity, privacity, procacity, pugnacity, radiopacity, rapacity, sagacity, salacity, saponacity, semiopacity, sequacity, tenacity
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