What's the difference between ferocity and fierceness?
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.
Fierceness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(3) Some business groups have been lobbying fiercely against the reform, though others support it.
(4) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(5) Despite its dominance, the PAP continues to fiercely restrict freedom of assembly and speech.
(6) Recruitment has not returned to pre-credit crunch levels, and there is fierce competition for new jobs.
(7) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(8) Andrea Dworkin, who has died aged 58, was a feminist who came to represent the fierce debate on pornography and sexual violence.
(9) In the past fortnight protesters have found themselves caught in the middle of fierce gun battles between regime forces and defected soldiers who have been guarding the main protest camp since March.
(10) The last of these come into force in 2014, and after fierce resistance from the larger operators, Kroes is not proposing any more price reductions.
(11) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(12) Allegations that British soldiers murdered insurgents and mutilated their bodies after a fierce firefight in Iraq were roundly rejected by an official inquiry, which also found that a number of prisoners were abused and that troops breached the Geneva convention.
(13) So there will no doubt be another fierce battle next year over this issue.
(14) There's something very earnest about the build up to this MLS Cup final, as if the battle on the field between Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake starts with a competition to see which team can "respect" the other one more fiercely.
(15) Cameron is caught between fierce opposition to reform on his own benches, Labour criticism of the bill, and the determination of his deputy Nick Clegg to press ahead with a reform that has been delayed for 100 years.
(16) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(17) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
(18) Tesco’s accounting scandal has led to concerns about the way the sector handles payments from suppliers for promoting products or hitting sales targets, and UK grocers are operating under fierce competition from discounters such as the German company Aldi which has reported a 65% rise in profits in the UK.
(19) Liverpool did not begin like a side who believed a top-four finish was beyond them and continued to apply fierce pressure.
(20) Sitting in the Khartoum restaurant as the fierce late-afternoon sun intrudes through the windows, Lubna dismisses the notion that western praise might be a drawback in a country like Sudan.