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Brutishness vs Ferity - What's the difference?

brutishness | ferity |

As nouns the difference between brutishness and ferity

is that brutishness is the characteristic of being brutish while ferity is the quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness.

brutishness

English

Noun

(-)
  • the characteristic of being brutish
  • ferity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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)