ferocity

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fəˈɹɑsɪti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈɹɒsɪti/

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• Rhymes: -ɒsɪti

ferocity (countable and uncountable, plural ferocities)

1. The condition of being ferocious.

• ferociousness
• fierceness
• furiousness
• fury
• vehemence
• violence
• wildness

• ferity
• ferocious (adj)
• fierce

• “ferocity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ferocity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “ferocity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.