ferocity
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ɪ noun
a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
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ferocious (fəˈrəʊʃəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| savagely fierce or cruel: a ferocious tiger; a ferocious argument | |
| [C17: from Latin ferox fierce, untamable, warlike] | |
| fe'rociously | |
| —adv | |
| ferocity | |
| —n | |
| fe'rociousness | |
| —n | |
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Ferocity
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Word Origin & History
ferocity
c.1600, from Fr. férocité, from L. ferocitatem (nom. ferocitas) "fierceness," from ferocis, an oblique case of ferox "fierce, wild-looking," a derivative of ferus "wild" (see fierce) + -ox, -ocem (gen. -ocis), a suffix meaning "looking or appearing" (cognate with Gk. ops "eye, sight").
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Example sentences
There's much more for us to marvel about sharks than their power and ferocity.
In the next moment, the obstruction in question shot out of the line with fire hose ferocity.
Ferocity on this scale offers little in the way of second chances to those that make a mistake.
As in the past, after recovering they would resume their attacks with renewed ferocity.
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