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FIERCENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being wild or turbulent
Example:
the storm's violence
Synonyms:
ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fierceness" is a kind of...):
intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fierceness"):
savageness; savagery (the property of being untamed and ferocious)
Derivation:
fierce (violently agitated and turbulent)
fierce (ruthless in competition)
fierce (marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid)
fierce (marked by extreme and violent energy)
Context examples:
“What can I tell you?” he demanded, with a recrudescence of fierceness.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Then they became friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy way with which fierce beasts belie their fierceness.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But if they were all mildness toward her, they were all fierceness toward one another.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And while the whole face was the incarnation of fierceness and strength, the primal melancholy from which he suffered seemed to greaten the lines of mouth and eye and brow, seemed to give a largeness and completeness which otherwise the face would have lacked.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It might have been a lost soul wailing, had it not been invested with a certain sad fierceness and hungry eagerness.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The three-year-old grew too ambitious in his fierceness.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
One Eye came to her; but when he touched her neck gently with his muzzle she snapped at him with such quick fierceness that he tumbled over backward and cut a ridiculous figure in his effort to escape her teeth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Nevertheless, Weedon Scott's ear and sympathy were fine enough to catch the new note all but drowned in the fierceness—the note that was the faintest hint of a croon of content and that none but he could hear.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
