Word Meanings - FEROCITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FEROCITY)

• Immunity
• Cruelty
• atrocity
• savagery
• ferocity
• truculence
• Rage
• Fury
• rabidity
• choler
• indignation
• frenzy
• auger
• ire
• dudgeon
• mania
• passion
• madness

Related words: (words related to FEROCITY)

• INDIGNATION
  1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
• MANIAC
  Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
• FEROCITY
  Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• MANIABLE
  Manageable. Bacon.
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• ATROCITY
  1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.
• IMMUNITY
  free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service;
• TRUCULENCE; TRUCULENCY
  The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
• CHOLEROID
  Choleriform.
• DUDGEON
  1. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. Gerarde . 2. The haft of a dagger. Shak. 3. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. Hudibras.
• SAVAGERY
  1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft
• CRUELTY
  1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act
• RABIDITY
  Rabidness; furiousness.
• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• PASSIONARY
  A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
• MANIACAL
  Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.
• PASSIONTIDE
  The last fortnight of Lent.
• MANIA
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: , madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn. -- Insanity;
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• MEGALOMANIA
  A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
• NYMPHOMANIA
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• ICONOMANIA
  A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
• DECALCOMANIA; DECALCOMANIE
  The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• KLEPTOMANIA
  A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.
• TASMANIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically , in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. See the Note under Eucalyptus.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• DOMANIAL
  Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
• DIPSOMANIAC
  One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.