Definition of Ferocity

Ferocity

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.

Related Definitions:

As, Countenance, Cruelty, Ferocity, Fury, Of, Or, Savage, Wildness

Ferocity Quotations

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John W. Gardner

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Havelock Ellis

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.
Fred F. Fielding

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
Michael Servetus

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Ferocity Translations

ferocity in Latin is ferocia
ferocity in Spanish is ferocidad
ferocity in Swedish is vildhet, grymhet

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