ferity
noun/ˈfɛɹɪti/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin feritas, from ferus (“wild”). By surface analysis, Latin fer- + -ity.
1
The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state.
- Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness
- To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 29:
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- The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:
- Related terms
- fierce, in the wild, wild type