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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ferocity \Fe*roc"i*ty\, noun [L. ferocitas, fr. ferox, -ocis, fierce, kin to ferus wild: cf. F. ferocit['e]. See {Fierce}.] Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ferocity
noun: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {fury}, {vehemence}, {violence}, {wildness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "ferocity": aggression, aggressiveness, animality, antagonism, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, cruelness, cruelty, ferociousness, fiendishness, fierceness, fight, hostility, inhumaneness, inhumanity, jingoism, martialism, militancy, militarism, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, ruthlessness, saber rattling, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, vandalism, viciousness, violence, wanton cruelty, warmongering, warpath
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