different between fury vs woodness

English

Etymology 1

From Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fj???i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fj??i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

1. Extreme anger.
2. Strength or violence in action.
3. An angry or malignant person.

Derived terms

• furious

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin fur (“thief”).

Noun

fury (plural furies)

1. (obsolete) A thief.

   • Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fu.r?/

Noun

fury f

1. inflection of fura:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Etymology

From Middle English woodnesse, wodnesse, from Old English w?dnes, corresponding to wood (“mad, insane”) +? -ness.

Noun

woodness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Madness, fury.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 5,^[1]

     […] This sodaine chaunge from feasting vnto fray

     Might well be likened to the Sea: whych standing at a stay

     The woodnesse of the windes makes rough by raising of the waue.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 11, p. 567,^[2]

     […] with fell woodnes he effierced was,

     And wilfully him throwing on the gras

     Did beat and bounse his head and brest ful sore […] .