ferocity
nounUS /fəˈɹɑsɪti/ · UK /fəˈɹɒsɪti/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French férocité, from Latin ferocitas, from ferox (“fierce”), from ferus (“wild, savage, fierce”).
1
The condition of being ferocious.
- Near-synonyms: fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence
- Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18—, London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim.1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 4, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- Derived terms
- superferocity