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Definition: Ferocity |
FerocityNoun1. The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ferocity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: FerocitySynonyms: fierceness (n), furiousness (n), fury (n), vehemence (n), violence (n), wildness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malevolence | Hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness; Adjective: brutality, savagery; ferity, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection. |
Violence | Severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion; (state of excitability). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ferocity |
| English words defined with "ferocity": Acharnement ♦ Beast royal ♦ contained ♦ tooth and nail. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ferocity": Boisterous. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This ferocity filled the disaster to the brim. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Afghanistan | The first (1839-42) resulted not only in the destruction of a British army, but is remembered today as an example of the ferocity of Afghan resistance to foreign rule. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Several tribes of Indians, strong in the # of their warriors, remarkable for their ferocity, and whose settlements extend to our limits, inhabit those Provinces. |
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| "Ferocity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ferocity" is used about 212 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 212 | 20,813 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ferocity": mock-ferocity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ferocity | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ferocity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sjellje e egër (atrocity), mizori (atrocity, barbarism, cruelty, devilry, deviltry, diabolism, inhumanity, outrage), egërsi (atrocity, bestiality, callousness, cruelty, fierceness, furiosity, fury, ill-treatment, inclemency, rabidity, rabies, savagery, truculence, virulence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وحشية (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, butch, cannibalism, cruelty, devilry, feretory, fierceness, inhumanity, ruffianism, savagery, shyness, thuggery, truculence), ضراوة (ferity, fierceness, fury, predation, rapacity), شدة (adversity, exaltation, harshness, hindrance, intensity, misery, need, rigor, solidity, strength, temperature, vehemence, violence, warmth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свирепост (fierceness, savagery, truculence), жестокост (barbarity, brutality, cannibalism, cruelty, excess, fierceness, inhumanity, toughness, truculence), дивост. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 凶猛 (Ferocious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zuřivost (fierceness, frenzy, furiosity, furor, furore, fury, rabidity, rage, violence), prudkost (effervescence, effervescency, fierceness, impetuosity, intensity, rapidity, vehemence, viciousness, vigor, vigour, violence, virulence), dravost (fierceness, rapacity), divokost (fierceness, truculence, wilderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | julmuus (cruelty), hurjapäisyys (recklessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | férocité (feretory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wildheit (fierceness, haggardness, jazziness, rabidness, rampancy, roughness, ruggedness, savageness, savageries, savagery, tigerishness, truculence, unruliness, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αγριότητα (cruelty, fierceness, savagery, truculence, wildness), αγριάδα (agrostis, bent grass, bur, burr, wildness), θηριωδία (atrocity, thuggery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פראות (barbarity, ferity, fierceness, savagery, truculence, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vadság (barbarity, fierceness, gothicism, rampageousness, rampancy, rowdyism, ruffianism, savageness, savagery, severity, truculence, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kekejaman (brutality, cruelty, enormity), kegarangan (fierceness, rampancy), keganasan (viciousness), kegalakan (audacity, fierceness, gruffness, rampancy, truculence, truculency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ferocia (savagery, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 獰猛 , 兇悍 (heinousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねいもう, きょうか" (assassin, between the mountains, breast, chest, heinousness, instructor, mirror, one's hometown, outlaw, paragon, professor, response, scream, shout, sympathy, teacher, villain), どうもう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gallverg (bitter enemy, sarcasm, spite, spiteful hatred, virulence, virulent anger), ferg (anger, bad temper, exasperation, gust of anger, heat, passion), eulys (fury, indignation, madness, rage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erocityfay ferocidade (ferrate, fierceness, savagery). (various references) ferocitate (atrocity, bloodthirstiness, cruelty, ferociousness, fierceness, grimness, savageness, savagery, truculence, wildness), sãlbãticie (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, fierceness, primitiveness, ruggedness, savageness, savagery, truculence, wildness, wilds). (various references) свирепость (savagery, truculence, truculency), жестокость (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, devilry, fierceness, inhumanity, savagery, tyranny, violence). (various references) svirepost (atrocity, fierceness, savagery, truculence, wantonness). (various references) ferocidad (ferociousness, fierceness, savageness, savagery, truculence, wildness). (various references) vildhet (wildness), grymhet (atrocity, barbarity, bestiality, cruelty, savagery). (various references) ความโห"ร้าย. (various references) vahşilik (bestiality, brutality, brutishness, heathenism, savageness, savagery, wildness), gaddarlık (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, fiendishness, grimness, inhumanity, perfidy, savageness, truculence). (various references) жорстокість (asperity, atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferociousness, harshness, savagery, severity), лютість (fury, savageness, truculence). (various references) tính hung ác sự dã man (ferociousness), tính dữ tợn (ferociousness), sự t n bạo (barbarousness, cruelty, ferociousness, sanguinariness). (various references) ffyrnigrwydd (fierceness), mileindra (savageness), anwariaeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | urgu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ferocia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Ferocity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farcity, felocity, ferociy, fibrosity, verocity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ferocity" (pronounced ferÄ"sutē) |
| 6 | -er Ä" s u t ē | generosity. |
| 5 | -Ä" s u t ē | animosity, atrocity, curiosity, monstrosity, pomposity, reciprocity, religiosity, velocity, virtuosity, viscosity. |
| 4 | -s u t ē | adversity, analyticity, audacity, authenticity, biodiversity, capacity, complexity, complicity, density, diversity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, falsity, Felicity, incapacity, intensity, laxity, mendacity, multiplicity, necessity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, perversity, propensity, publicity, scarcity, simplicity, specificity, tenacity, toxicity, university, varsity, veracity, voracity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: certify, rectify. | |
-2 letters: erotic, ferity. | |
-3 letters: citer, coyer, croft, fetor, fiery, force, forte, forty, foyer, ofter, recti, recto, refit, reify, toric, toyer, trice. | |
-4 letters: cero, cire, cite, city, coft, coif, coir, core, corf, cory, cote, etic, fice, fico, fire, foci, fore, fort, fret, frit, froe, fyce, otic, oyer, reft, reif, rice, rife, rift, riot. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-o-r-t-y" | |
+3 letters: countryfied, factorylike. | |
+4 letters: proficiently, refractorily. | |
+5 letters: certificatory, confectionary, confectionery, confraternity, hyperfunction, myelofibrotic, perfunctorily. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 72 6F 63 69 74 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-. --- -.-. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110010 01101111 01100011 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e r o c i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0072 006F 0063 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4071848169758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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