ferity

noun
/ˈfɛɹɪti/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin feritas, from ferus (“wild”). By surface analysis, Latin fer- + -ity.

  1. borrowed from feritas

Definitions

  1. The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state.

    • Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness
    • To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity.
    • The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for ferity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA