different between ferity vs ferocity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin feritas, from ferus (“wild”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???ti/

Noun

ferity (uncountable)

1. The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 29)

     To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity.

Related terms

• fierce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French férocité, from Latin ferocitas, from ferox (“fierce”), from ferus (“wild, savage, fierce”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f????s?ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f????s?ti/
• Rhymes: -?s?ti

Noun

ferocity (countable and uncountable, plural ferocities)

1. The condition of being ferocious.

Synonyms

• ferociousness
• fierceness
• furiousness
• fury
• vehemence
• violence
• wildness

Related terms

• ferity
• ferocious (adj)
• fierce

Translations

Further reading

• ferocity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ferocity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ferocity at OneLook Dictionary Search