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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the property of being wild or turbulent;
- Example: "the storm's violence"
[syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ferocity n 1: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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