fierceness
6
3.5
- noun
- /ˈfɪərsnəs/
:
ferocidad
- He fought with a fierceness that made his opponents back down.
Yeah, the Parachute Regiment training is all about aggression and fierceness and soldiering, and you are coerced.
- Yeah, the Parachute Regiment training is all about aggression and fierceness and soldiering, and you are coerced.
- As the day passed, his impatience turn from fear, which is legitimate to feel when you're going to deal with Dragons, to a kind of glad fierceness.
- We have to be the fierceness, the love that we want to see.
Examples
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His eyes held some of the bird's fierceness, but it was the fierceness of desire, of determination.
Fiction book (1993) -
The eyes were brown, long-lashed, and for a moment they looked into mine with a fierceness that frightened me.
Fiction book (1994) -
When they opened again, there was a fierceness in them, a terrible fire.
Fiction book (1998) -
A tiny smile touched his mother's mouth, but the fierceness did not leave her eyes.
Fiction book (1998) -
There is an animal fierceness in her eye that shuts him up instantly.
Fiction book (2001) -
Hardly fit for polite company, they nonetheless love with a fierceness echoing the land through which they have passed.
Academic text (1994) -
I burst to tell you everything, but in the fierceness of my own battles, I told you only that which would inspire you and keep you safe.
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For all his fierceness, there's a delicacy in the way he holds the bat.
Fiction book (1994) -
The sun shone with happy fierceness as the peasants sang.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cobb looks at Stump with a fierceness that is so overwhelming, so physical, that Stump melts.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
187
5.6
Very cruel and violent actions that hurt people
34
4.3
A very strong natural force that causes damage, like a storm or eruption
31
3.9
Strong wild force in nature, like a storm or big waves
20
7.4
Extreme cruelty or violence that hurts people
18
6.8
A very strong, violent feeling or action
10
6.3
Being very cruel and violent toward other people or animals
6
3.9
The state of being wild and not controlled by people, like a jungle
6
8.4
A very strong feeling shown in speech or action
3
4.4
Bold and energetic in trying to reach a goal
2
5.1
A strong, clear, and confident quality in speech, action, or physical strength
1
7.5
Being very wild and fierce and likely to harm people or things
1
7.0
Very violent and cruel actions that frighten people
Antonyms
How Fierce
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fierceness comes from fierce, which comes from older words meaning 'wild' and 'untamed' and is the same idea behind ferocious. So, fierceness means a strong, intense, often violent force or feeling, like a wild animal, a storm, or a person defending something with great energy.