ferality
nounEtymology From feral + -ity.
1
The quality of being feral.
- Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness
- Perhaps ferality is only a stage for a housecat. A Swedish study suggests that males go through a sequence of life stages: from Novices to Outcasts to Challengers to Breeders.1985, Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, volume 12, page 166:
- Related terms
- in the wild