ferity

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈfɛɹɪti/

Definition of ferity

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)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.”

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Etymology

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

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