Synonyms for ferocity
fəˈrɒs ɪ tife·roc·i·ty

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1. ferocitynoun

   Synonyms:
   vehemence, wildness, violence, furiousness, fierceness, fury

2. ferocitynoun

   The condition of being ferocious.

   Synonyms:
   fury, wildness, vehemence, fierceness, furiousness, violence

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 7 votes

1. ferocity

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, cruelty, hard-heartedness, hardness, harshness, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigor, ruthlessness, severity, sternness, truculence

   Antonyms:
   commiseration, compassion, condolence, mercy, pity, sympathy, tenderness

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1. ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildnessnoun

   the property of being wild or turbulent

   "the storm's violence"

   Synonyms:
   fury, rage, delirium, emphasis, craze, frenzy, abandon, madness, wildness, force, violence, vehemence, furiousness, hysteria, fierceness

Matched Categories

1. • Intensity

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1. ferocitynoun

   Synonyms:
   savageness, fierceness, ferociousness, wildness, rapacity

2. ferocitynoun

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, cruelty, inhumanity

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1. ferocitynoun

   Synonyms:
   rapacity, fierceness

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1. List of paraphrases for "ferocity":

   nail, cruelty

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1. Daniel Griffin:

   This is a slightly expanded approach to social distancing that is tolerable and may be what saves us, we need to prevent the virus from erupting with the ferocity that it did in March.

2. E. M. Cioran:

   Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

3. Angus King:

   We told him this was coming, i don't know if Vladimir Putin didn't believe Senate Select Committee on Intelligence or wasn't well advised, but I'm quite confident Vladimir Putin did not anticipate the ferocity of the sanctions.

4. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

   The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

5. Bertrand Russell:

   Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.