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fury | fierceness | Synonyms |

Fury is a synonym of fierceness.


As a proper noun fury

is (lb) female personification of vengeance ().

As a noun fierceness is

the state of being fierce.

fury

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) furie, from (etyl)

Noun

(furies)
  • Extreme anger.
  • Strength or violence in action.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,!”
  • An angry or malignant person.
  • Derived terms
    * furious

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) .

    Noun

    (furies)
  • (obsolete) A thief.
  • * J. Fletcher
  • Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies .

    fierceness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state of being fierce.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , I stroked it gently, on which the mutinous rogue seemed to swell, and gather a new degree of fierceness and insolence; so that finding it grew not to be trifled with any longer, I prepar'd for rubbers in good earnest.}}