Synonyms of ferocity

ferocity

noun

as in brutality

a very fierce or violent quality; the quality or state of being ferocious

the ferocity of the attack

The ferocity of the backlash took them by surprise.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• brutality
• cruelty
• ferociousness
• murderousness
• fierceness
• savagery
• grimness
• savageness
• barbarity
• viciousness
• inhumanity
• heartlessness
• ruthlessness
• sadism
• fiendishness
• spitefulness
• cruelness
• mercilessness
• atrocity
• truculence
• meanness
• pitilessness
• fellness
• barbarousness
• inhumanness
• bloodthirstiness
• wantonness
• bloodlust
• malevolence
• unfeelingness
• sanguinity
• atrociousness
• malignity
• maliciousness
• hatefulness
• hard-heartedness
• oppressiveness
• harshness
• sanguineness
• cattiness
• despitefulness
• nastiness
• heavy-handedness
• hardhandedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tenderness
• warmth
• warmness
• mercy
• pity
• clemency
• leniency
• sympathy
• compassion
• warmheartedness
• humanity
• kindness
• humaneness
• charitableness
• mercifulness
• benignity
• tenderheartedness
• kindheartedness
• good-heartedness

Examples of ferocity in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Smith’s screenplay limits that to a glancing mention or two; shots of wind farms or an oil refinery being pummeled by a twister, adding fire to its elemental ferocity, speak more eloquently. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024

Interviews with residents, experts, meteorologists and local officials paint a picture of a storm rapidly intensifying, barreling farther inland than usual with stunning ferocity. —Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024

Both candidates have heightened the velocity and ferocity of their attacks. —Tom Dart, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2024

That level of ferocity and vengeance and redemption, the nuclear power of mid-century Jewish life, the movie ‘Exodus’—that’s alive in her. —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024