ferocity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ferocity
    n 1: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
         violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness},
         {fury}, {vehemence}, {violence}, {wildness}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ferocity \Fe*roc"i*ty\, n. [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.
   [1913 Webster]

         The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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