Ferocity
noun
The quality of being fierce or savage.
The ferocity of the storm took everyone by surprise.
Often appears as...
- unleash ferocity
- ferocity of attack
noun
The quality of being fierce or savage.
The ferocity of the storm took everyone by surprise.
Often appears as...
- unleash ferocity
- ferocity of attack
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to emphasize strong emotional responses and reactions.
His speech was delivered with such ferocity that the audience was left in awe.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies negative actions or events, though the emotion behind them can be positive or negative.
She defended her project with a ferocity that bordered on aggression.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical and Abstract
Can describe both physical aggression and abstract concepts, like a storm or debate.
The ferocity of their debate on climate change echoed through the auditorium.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to emphasize strong emotional responses and reactions.
His speech was delivered with such ferocity that the audience was left in awe.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies negative actions or events, though the emotion behind them can be positive or negative.
She defended her project with a ferocity that bordered on aggression.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical and Abstract
Can describe both physical aggression and abstract concepts, like a storm or debate.
The ferocity of their debate on climate change echoed through the auditorium.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to emphasize strong emotional responses and reactions.
His speech was delivered with such ferocity that the audience was left in awe.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies negative actions or events, though the emotion behind them can be positive or negative.
She defended her project with a ferocity that bordered on aggression.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical and Abstract
Can describe both physical aggression and abstract concepts, like a storm or debate.
The ferocity of their debate on climate change echoed through the auditorium.
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6 ways mushrooms can...
How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us? The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom -- it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt. We were involved with several experiments.
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What if Women Built the...
we're creating strong communities of tradeswomen as a microcosm for what we believe the industry needs at a macro level. We're filling their toolboxes with drills and saws and ferocity and joy. These are the young women who will go forth to build the world we all want to see.
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Cannibal Scorpions vs....
a meal of the other one which is why they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the
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The Standing Rock...
and they were met with attack dogs, people, private security officers, wielding attack dogs in. But I interviewed one of the women, who had been bitten on the breast by one of these dogs, and the ferocity and strength of her
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Cannibal Scorpions vs....
fighting to the death both want to make a meal of the other one which is why they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
I loved her, but the ferocity that a child has sometimes before she understands that love also requires letting go. But my clearest and sharpest memory of my auntie, is also one of my first memories of life at all.
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Cannibal Scorpions vs....
they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the
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Mutant Devils PIPE National...
mascot it is a rural cleaner playing a vital role in the ecosystem by devouring carcasses that might otherwise lead to disease full-grown Tasmanian devils are famous fighters their ferocity is
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Rare Fossa Sighting in...
I just got this eye shine coming back up the fusa has a long live elegant form but its ferocity gives it the power of an animal many times its size this is my
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A Handy Zombie...
is new to the world of the undead you can tell by his incredible strength and ferocity there are four distinct
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6 ways mushrooms can...
How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us? The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom -- it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt. We were involved with several experiments.
Video examples
What if Women Built the...
we're creating strong communities of tradeswomen as a microcosm for what we believe the industry needs at a macro level. We're filling their toolboxes with drills and saws and ferocity and joy. These are the young women who will go forth to build the world we all want to see.
Video examples
Cannibal Scorpions vs....
a meal of the other one which is why they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the
Video examples
The Standing Rock...
and they were met with attack dogs, people, private security officers, wielding attack dogs in. But I interviewed one of the women, who had been bitten on the breast by one of these dogs, and the ferocity and strength of her
Video examples
Cannibal Scorpions vs....
fighting to the death both want to make a meal of the other one which is why they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
I loved her, but the ferocity that a child has sometimes before she understands that love also requires letting go. But my clearest and sharpest memory of my auntie, is also one of my first memories of life at all.
Video examples
Cannibal Scorpions vs....
they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the
Video examples
Mutant Devils PIPE National...
mascot it is a rural cleaner playing a vital role in the ecosystem by devouring carcasses that might otherwise lead to disease full-grown Tasmanian devils are famous fighters their ferocity is
Video examples
Rare Fossa Sighting in...
I just got this eye shine coming back up the fusa has a long live elegant form but its ferocity gives it the power of an animal many times its size this is my
Video examples
A Handy Zombie...
is new to the world of the undead you can tell by his incredible strength and ferocity there are four distinct
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Bharati Mukherjee
Indian Writer
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.
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Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
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Gillian Flynn
American Author
Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.
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Mal Peet
English Author
Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
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Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
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.
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Jim Mattis
American Public Servant
There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
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George Vecsey
American Author
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
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Bharati Mukherjee
Indian Writer
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.
Quote examples
Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
Quote examples
Gillian Flynn
American Author
Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.
Quote examples
Mal Peet
English Author
Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
Quote examples
Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
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.
Quote examples
Jim Mattis
American Public Servant
There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.
Quote examples
Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Quote examples
George Vecsey
American Author
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
Quote examples
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
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