ferity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈfɛɹɪti/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin feritas, from ferus (“wild”). By surface analysis, Latin fer- + -ity.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state.
Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness
The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity.
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 29:
Coordinates
ferocity · fierceness · ferociousness
Relateds
fierce · in the wild · wild type
Synonyms
feralness · ferality · brutishness · wildness