What's the difference between feracity and ferocity?
Feracity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being feracious or fruitful.
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Ferocity
Definition:
(n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) As opposition to her and her measures became more intense, she responded not with emollience but with increased ferocity.
(2) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
(3) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(4) And there were moments when the ferocity of the disease made some clinicians wonder if anything would stand in its way.
(5) The ferocity of the battle, once the results of the prime minister’s negotiations with his EU partners had been announced, has taken Downing Street aback.
(6) Dozens have been injured on either side; the ferocity of the attacks has shocked the nation.
(7) "Dislike" is, in fact, far too mild: there's a depth of contempt, a cold ferocity of detestation, that can shock.
(8) The Huffington Post reported that some in the CIA have been pushing for the US to make a secret pact with Bashar al-Assad, the same dictator we almost went to war with a year ago – the same man who has suddenly stepped up his country’s ferocity of attacks on the US-backed rebels , ahead of the expected air campaign.
(9) In explaining his opposition to Adani’s plans, Ian Chappell said “you don’t need to be Einstein when you see the frequency and the ferocity of some of the weather events that we’ve been having”.
(10) June 8, 2014 2.34pm BST First set: Djokovic* 3-2 Nadal Djokovic goes 40-15 up with a flying crosscourt forehand from deep behind the baseline that lands perfectly on the line, a shot of beauty and ferocity.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Slowing his words in a way some viewers interpreted as patronising, Kellerman continued: “But he had to be hitting you with something because you weren’t attacking him with the same kind of ferocity that we sometimes see you attack.
(12) Now that ally is showing as much ferocity in striking at the "moderates" of the Free Syrian Army as against the regime.
(13) Most were still reeling from the ferocity and speed of the attacks.
(14) Slater has run scores of posts attacking the German, increasing in frequency and ferocity since Dotcom’s founding of the Internet party.
(15) You should not use bad language any time to police officers and I should not have used it.” He accepted that it was said that a chief whip had to have a mixture of charm and menace, and that he could be abrasive, but said: “I strive not to be abrasive.” He said: “I don’t believe any of my colleagues who knew me well would have believed I would call a police officer a pleb.” He added: “When there is a media storm of the ferocity which hit me – the extraordinary tsunami of vitriol which descended on my head over a prolonged period of time led by the Sun – it is not surprising that very few people would put their head above the barricade and defend me, although a certain number did.” Mitchell agreed that he had a temper, but not that he was quick to lose it.
(16) But as the equipment inspected the bathroom, Mohamed Merah burst out, apparently armed with several weapons, and fired with extreme ferocity … Raid officers returned fire.
(17) She once took on Nigel Farage on Question Time with a ferocity that impressed colleagues, but later prompted slightly different reactions when she said that Farage looked like “somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it”.
(18) She had never seen him play with such energy, such ferocity.
(19) The before-and-after photographs of Doron Baga, which lies 1.5 miles from Baga, reveal the ferocity of the onslaught, with more than 3,100 structures damaged or destroyed by fire.
(20) Certainly she struggled to keep up with Bouchard’s sustained ferocity from the baseline.