Antonyms for ferocities
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fuh-ros-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : fəˈrɒs ɪ ti |
- apathy
- calm
- calmness
- charity
- chill
- cold
- compassion
- consideration
- cool
- coolness
- disinterest
- dullness
- ease
- enervation
- feeling
- frigidity
- gentility
- gentleness
- glee
- happiness
- harmony
- health
- humaneness
- idleness
- inability
- inactivity
- incompetence
- indifference
- kindness
- laziness
- lethargy
- love
- mercy
- method
- mildness
- moderation
- niceness
- order
- organization
- passivity
- peace
- peacefulness
- pleasure
- powerlessness
- surrender
- sweetness
- sympathy
- system
- thoughtfulness
- unimportance
- weakness
Definition of ferocities
Origin :- c.1600, from French férocité, from Latin ferocitatem (nominative ferocitas) "fierceness," from ferocis, oblique case of ferox "wild, bold, courageous, warlike, fierce," literally "wild-looking," a derivative of ferus "wild" (see fierce) + -ox, -ocem (genitive -ocis), a suffix meaning "looking or appearing" (cognate with Greek ops "eye, sight").
- As in inhumanity : noun lack of compassion
- As in intensity : noun passion, force
- As in rage : noun extreme anger
- As in violence : noun extreme force, intensity
- As in brutality : noun cruel treatment
- As in irateness : noun fury
- As in savagery : noun cruelty
- As in truculence : noun cruelty
- As in truculency : noun cruelty
- As in vehemency : noun intensity
- As in cruelty : noun brutality, harshness
- As in fury : noun anger, wrath
- As in heat : noun anger, passion
- The ferocities are sometimes prompted by personal vengeance.
- Extract from : « The World of Homer » by Andrew Lang
- Could it have expurgated these ferocities it would have done so.
- Extract from : « The World of Homer » by Andrew Lang
- An animal in her ferocities, her mute instincts, her supreme patience, her physical perfectness of body and of health.
- Extract from : « Folle-Farine » by Ouida
- The Indians were gentle and amiable in character, and naturally timid; with no taste for the ferocities of war.
- Extract from : « Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi » by John S. C. Abbott
- Manifestly these ferocities were de bonne guerre in the society to which Homer sang.
- Extract from : « The World of Homer » by Andrew Lang
- As he grovelled in the dust before Shalmaneser, did no memory of his own ferocities darken his humiliated soul?
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible » by F. W. Farrar
- And it seemed too dreadful to her to associate that gentle spirit with all the ferocities and the carnage of a battlefield.
- Extract from : « Westward Ho! » by Charles Kingsley
Synonyms for ferocities
- abandon
- acerbity
- acrimony
- acuteness
- agitation
- animality
- animosity
- anxiety
- apoplexy
- ardor
- asperity
- assault
- atrocity
- attack
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bitterness
- bloodshed
- bloodthirstiness
- blowup
- bluster
- boiling point
- brutality
- brute force
- brutishness
- callousness
- choke hold
- choler
- clash
- coarseness
- coercion
- cold-bloodedness
- coldness
- compulsion
- concentration
- confusion
- conniption
- constraint
- convulsion
- cruelty
- dander
- deepness
- depravity
- depth
- desire
- despotism
- destructiveness
- disorder
- disturbance
- duress
- earnestness
- emotion
- emphasis
- energy
- eruption
- exasperation
- excess
- excitement
- explosion
- extreme
- extremity
- fanaticism
- ferment
- ferociousness
- ferocity
- fervency
- fervor
- fever
- fiendishness
- fierceness
- fighting
- fire
- fireworks
- flap
- flare-up
- force
- forcefulness
- foul play
- frenzy
- furor
- fury
- fuss
- gall
- grossness
- hard-heartedness
- harshness
- heartlessness
- heat
- hemorrhage
- high pitch
- huff
- hysterics
- impetuosity
- indignation
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- intenseness
- intensity
- ire
- irritation
- keenness
- madness
- magnitude
- malice
- maliciousness
- malignity
- mania
- masochism
- mercilessness
- might
- murderousness
- nervousness
- obsession
- onslaught
- outburst
- paroxysm
- passion
- persecution
- pitch
- potency
- power
- rabidity
- rage
- raging
- rampage
- rampancy
- rancor
- raving
- resentment
- rise
- roughness
- ruckus
- rumble
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- sharpness
- slow burn
- sore
- spasm
- spite
- spitefulness
- spleen
- squall
- stew
- storm
- storminess
- strain
- strength
- struggle
- tantrum
- temper
- tempestuousness
- tenseness
- tension
- terrorism
- third degree
- torture
- truculence
- truculency
- tumult
- turbulence
- umbrage
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- uproar
- upset
- vehemence
- venom
- viciousness
- vigor
- violence
- volume
- warmth
- weightiness
- wickedness
- wildness
- wingding
- wrath
- wrathfulness
- zeal
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