FEROCITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ferocity mean? 

• FEROCITY (noun)
  The noun FEROCITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being wild or turbulent

  Familiarity information: FEROCITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEROCITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being wild or turbulent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness

Context example:

the storm's violence

Hypernyms ("ferocity" is a kind of...):

intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ferocity"):

savageness; savagery (the property of being untamed and ferocious)

Derivation:

ferocious (marked by extreme and violent energy)

 Context examples 

It was not so much White Fang's ferocity as it was his silence that unnerved the groom.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And, reader, do you think I feared him in his blind ferocity? —if you do, you little know me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His head was horribly injured, and the whole room bore witness to the savage ferocity of the blow which had struck him down.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18—, London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

With a roar that was almost lionlike in its ferocity, he again hurled himself at the man.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They had never witnessed such intensity of ferocity, and they were awed by it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His heavy-jowled, clean-shaven face expressed ferocity as well as courage, and he stood with his small, blood-shot eyes fixed viciously upon Jim, and his lumpy shoulders stooping a little forwards, like a fierce hound training on a leash.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The son, on the other hand, had dropped all that jaunty, dashing style which had characterized him, and the ferocity of a dangerous wild beast gleamed in his dark eyes and distorted his handsome features.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In heavy clusters they hung upon the forecastle all ready for a spring—faces white, faces brown, faces yellow, and faces black, fair Norsemen, swarthy Italians, fierce rovers from the Levant, and fiery Moors from the Barbary States, of all hues and countries, and marked solely by the common stamp of a wild-beast ferocity.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)