Ferity

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɛɹɪti/

Origin

From Latin feritatem, from ferus ‘wild’.

Full definition of ferity

Noun

1. The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness.
• 1658: To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 29)