fəˈräsəd.ē, -sətē, -i noun
( -es )
Etymology: French & Latin; French férocité, from Latin ferocitas, from feroc-, ferox fierce + -itas -ity
1. : the quality or state of being ferocious : savage wildness : fury
turned on them with a ferocity which made a savage of him on the spot — Virginia Woolf
: extreme or furious intensity : ardor
a wild ferocity of joy overcame him — Liam O'Flaherty
2. : an instance of ferocity
has his great sentimentalities to compensate for his chronic ferocities — Edmund Wilson