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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ferality en · NOUN

Etymology

From feral + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being feral.
    • Perhaps ferality is only a stage for a housecat. A Swedish study suggests that males go through a sequence of life stages: from Novices to Outcasts to Challengers to Breeders. 1985, Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, volume 12, page 166:
    • Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness

Coordinates

ferociousness · fierceness · ferocity

Relateds

in the wild

Synonyms

brutishness · ferity · wildness · feralness