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

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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. Bertrand Russell:

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

2. Chuck Schumer:

   She had deep convictions – on both issues important to the people of Rochester, and for the integrity and honesty of the political system, throughout her entire career, Louiseworkedwithpeoplefrom so many different philosophies and backgrounds, because she wassuch a genuinehuman spirit.The ferocity of her advocacy was matched only by the depth of her compassion and humanity.

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. 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.

5. 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.