Antonyms 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

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1. ferocity

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

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

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1. • Intensity

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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

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1. ferocitynoun

   Synonyms:
   rapacity, fierceness

How to use ferocity in a sentence?

1. Pope Francis:

   What we are seeing is the brutality and ferocity with which this war is being carried out by the troops, generally mercenaries, used by the Russians, in reality, the Russians prefer to send forward Chechens, Syrians, mercenaries.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

3. 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.

4. Christen Kuikoua:

   In our friendships, we often act as adversaries, and in our humanity, we sometimes emulate the ferocity of lions. Yet, we must not allow malevolence to cloud our judgment or materialism to taint our souls. Instead, let kindness prevail, even if the world misunderstands. It's never too late to embrace the innate humanity bestowed upon us and to find hope by opening our eyes to a better way.

5. 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.

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