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. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Bertrand Russell:

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