ferity
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin feritas, from ferus (“wild”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛɹɪti/
Noun
ferity (uncountable)
- The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 29)
- To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity.
- 1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking
- The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 29)
Related terms
- fierce