Fierceness

Definition: Fierceness

Fierceness

Noun

1. The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence".

Date "fierceness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonyms: Fierceness

Synonyms: ferocity (n), furiousness (n), fury (n), vehemence (n), violence (n), wildness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Violence; fierceness; Adjective: rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fierceness

English words defined with "fierceness": Acharnement ♦ Brustle ♦ Ferity ♦ lurid ♦ tigerish, To do violence to. (references)

Author	Quotation
Herbert	Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	In a moment they heard a voice speaking reassuringly to the barking dogs and the barking lost its fierceness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fierceness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fierceness" is used about 41 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%	41	53,521

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Language		Translations for "fierceness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		amok (amuck). (various references)

Albanian		egërsi (atrocity, bestiality, callousness, cruelty, ferocity, furiosity, fury, ill-treatment, inclemency, rabidity, rabies, savagery, truculence, virulence). (various references)

Arabic		‏وحشية (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, butch, cannibalism, cruelty, devilry, feretory, ferocity, inhumanity, ruffianism, savagery, shyness, thuggery, truculence), ‏عنف (blow up, check, chide, convulse, expostulate, force, heating, impetuosity, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, scold, smarten, thuggery, vehemence, violence, whip off), ‏ضراوة (ferity, ferocity, fury, predation, rapacity), ‏بغض (aversion, odiousness, unpleasantness, unwillingness). (various references)

Bulgarian		страстност (amorousness, vehemence), свирепост (ferocity, savagery, truculence), жестокост (barbarity, brutality, cannibalism, cruelty, excess, ferocity, inhumanity, toughness, truculence), бурност (roughness, turbulence). (various references)

Czech		zuřivost (ferocity, frenzy, furiosity, furor, furore, fury, rabidity, rage, violence), prudkost (effervescence, effervescency, ferocity, impetuosity, intensity, rapidity, vehemence, viciousness, vigor, vigour, violence, virulence), dravost (ferocity, rapacity), divokost (ferocity, truculence, wilderness). (various references)

Dutch		woestheid (abandonment, amuck, savageness), wildheid (savageness), verwoedheid (amuck, lust, passion), razerný (amuck, rabies), hevigheid (amuck, intensity, intensiveness strength), amok (amuck, androphonomania, homicidal mania, run amuck). (various references)

Finnish		äksyys (unmanageableness), äkäisyys (anger, exasperation). (various references)

French		férocité, violence, acharnement. (various references)

German		wildheit (ferocity, haggardness, jazziness, rabidness, rampancy, roughness, ruggedness, savageness, savageries, savagery, tigerishness, truculence, unruliness, wildness), Grimm (fury, ire, wrath). (various references)

Greek		αγριότητα (cruelty, ferocity, savagery, truculence, wildness). (various references)

Hebrew		פראות (barbarity, ferity, ferocity, savagery, truculence, wildness). (various references)

Hungarian		vadság (barbarity, ferocity, gothicism, rampageousness, rampancy, rowdyism, ruffianism, savageness, savagery, severity, truculence, wildness), ádázság. (various references)

Indonesian		kegarangan (ferocity, rampancy), kegalakan (audacity, ferocity, gruffness, rampancy, truculence, truculency). (various references)

Italian		fierezza (arrogant, boldness, pride, proud). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		熾烈 (severity, violence), 劇烈 (intenseness, severity, violence), 剽悍 (daring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しれつ (row of teeth, severity, violence), ひょうか�" (daring), �'きれつ (fervent, furious, intenseness, severity, vehement, violence, violent). (various references)

Manx		farg (anger, choler, fury, outrage, wrath), elgys (anger, spite, vehemence, viciousness, vindictiveness), chennoilys (vehemence). (various references)

Pig Latin		iercenessfay

Portuguese		ferocidade (ferocity, ferrate, savagery), fúria (furor, furore, fury, hag, madness, rabidity, rage, rave, rush, violence), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm). (various references)

Romanian		furie (anger, frenzy, fury, hastiness, ire, madness, mood, rage, shrew, temper, termagant, violence, wax, wrath), ferocitate (atrocity, bloodthirstiness, cruelty, ferociousness, ferocity, grimness, savageness, savagery, truculence, wildness), violenţã (excess, force, roughness, rudeness, severity, violence), sãlbãticie (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, primitiveness, ruggedness, savageness, savagery, truculence, wildness, wilds), cruzime (barbarity, brutality, callosity, cruelty, excess, feliness, inhumanity, savagery), ardoare (Ardor, ardour, earnestness, fervour, fire, heat, intensity, warmth, zeal, zest), înverşunare (acerbity, bitterness, frenzy, fury, heat, rage, stubbornness). (various references)

Russian		жестокость (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, devilry, ferocity, inhumanity, savagery, tyranny, violence), лютость (ferocity). (various references)

Scottish		gurt, gairge. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		svirepost (atrocity, ferocity, savagery, truculence, wantonness). (various references)

Spanish		furia (anger, Dander, frenzy, fureur, fury, madness, rage, temper, wildness, wrath), ferocidad (ferociousness, ferocity, savageness, savagery, truculence, wildness), intensidad (depth, end, intension, intensity, intensiveness strength, luminosity, poignancy, sharpness, strength). (various references)

Thai		ความ�"ุร้าย (savagery). (various references)

Turkish		sertlik (asperity, austerity, bitterness, curtness, firmness, hardness, harshness, headiness, inclemency, intemperance, kick, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, solidity, starch, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, strength, strictness, stringency, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness), şiddet (acuteness, edge, force, forcefulness, harshness, heaviness, impetuosity, impetus, intenseness, intension, intensity, keenness, lustiness, rigor, rigour, rough stuff, severity, sharpness, smartness, sting, stringency, tempest, vehemence, violence, virulence). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính chất mãnh liệt, tính chất hung tợn tính chất dữ dội, tính chất hung dữ, tính chất dữ tợn, tính chất ác liệt (outrageousness). (various references)

Welsh		ffyrnigrwydd (ferocity). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	�ur. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	asperitas, ferocitatem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Job Chapter 39, Verse 27
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Epi de sw prostagmati uyoutai aetoV guy de epi nossiaV autou kaqesqeiV aulizetai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Aut ad praeceptum tuum elevabitur aquila et in arduis ponet nidum suum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Whether at thi comaundement shal be rerid the egle, and in heye thingus shal putten his nest?
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Victorian English	1833	Webster	\39:24\He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Job Chapter 39, Verse 27
Albanian	Éshtë vallë nën komandën tënde që shqiponja ngrihet lart dhe e bën folenë e saj në vende të larta?
Cebuano	Maglupad ba ang agila sa itaas tungod sa imong pagmando, Ug magbalay sa iyang salag sa kahitas-an?
Croatian	Zar se na nalog tvoj diže orao i vrh timora gnijezdo sebi vije?
Danish	den sluger Vejen med gungrende Vildskab, den tøjler sig ikke, når Hornet lyder;
Finnish	Käy jyrinä ja jytinä, kun se laukaten taivalta ahmii; ei mikään sitä pidätä sotatorven pauhatessa.
German	Fliegt der Adler auf deinen Befehl so hoch, daß er sein Nest in der Höhe macht?
Hungarian	Tombolva, nyihogva kapálja a földet, és nem áll veszteg, ha trombita zeng.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Perintahmukah yang diikuti burung rajawali sebelum ia membuat sarangnya di gunung yang tinggi?
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dengan getar dan gertak ia mengentak-entakkan kakinya kepada tanah dan tiada ia mau berhenti apabila didengarnya bunyi nafiri.
Italian	O al tuo comando l'aquila s'innalza e pone il suo nido sulle alture?
Maori	Nau te kupu i kake ai te ekara? i hanga ai e ia tana ohanga ki te wahi tiketike?
Norwegian	Med styr og ståk river den jorden op, og den lar sig ikke stagge når krigsluren lyder.
Portuguese	Ou se remonta a águia ao teu mandado, e põe no alto o seu ninho?
Rumanian	Oare din porunca ta se knalyq vulturul, wi kwi aweazq cuibul pe knqlyimi?
Russian	рП ФЧПЕНХ МЙ УМПЧХ ЧПЪОПУЙФУС ПТЕМ Й ХУФТПСЕФ ОБ ЧЩУПФЕ ЗОЕЪ�"П УЧПЕ?
Spanish	¿Es por tu mandato que el águila se eleva y pone en lo alto su nido?
Swedish	Han skakas och rasar och uppslukar marken, han kan icke styra sig, när basunen har ljudit.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fierceness": fiercenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fierceness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fircones. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-i-n-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: sceneries.
	-2 letters: eeriness, eserines, freeness, nereises, refences, rifeness.
	-3 letters: censers, cerises, creeses, enserfs, eserine, essence, fencers, finesse, frisees, refence, refines, screens, secerns, seiners, sereins, serenes, serines, sferics, sincere.
	-4 letters: censer, censes, cerise, creese, crises, ecesis, enserf, fencer, fences, ferine, fierce, frisee, frises, infers, nereis, nieces, recess, refine, reseen, resees, resins, rinses, scenes, screen, screes.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-f-i-n-r-s-s"
	+2 letters: fiercenesses, sceneshifter.
	+3 letters: imperfectness, misreferences, sceneshifters.
	+4 letters: forciblenesses, inflorescences, mercifulnesses, perfectiveness, reflectiveness, refractiveness.
	+5 letters: confirmednesses, ferociousnesses, imperfectnesses.
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