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fierceness

[ feers-nis ]

noun

  1. a menacingly wild, savage, or hostile quality or character:

    In spite of the fierceness of the enemy barrage, the line was made secure.

    After many threats, he rushed at me with the fierceness of a wolf.

  2. violent force, intensity, etc.:

    Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating.

  3. furious eagerness or intensity of emotion, etc.:

    As I read her novel my heart was moved by the fierceness of her love for humanity.

  4. the quality of being extremely bad or severe:

    Only by the fifth day, when the fierceness of the headache started to decrease, was she able to move normally again.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ··ھ·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fierceness1

First recorded in 1350–1400; fierce ( def ) + -ness ( def )
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He also opened a youth center and, for the next decade, dedicated himself to helping others, losing all of the fierceness he’d adopted as a fighter.

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The fierceness of the defence obviously stayed with Goldie - he later saw a poodle and hastily flew away.

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To generalize, we might describe Thracian art as embodying a barbaric style — not as a term of derision but merely descriptive of a blunt, skillful fierceness so often encountered in its forms.

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There’s a fierceness to the romantic doom of the new “Nosferatu,” a muscular fatalism achingly vulnerable and ferocious, feminine and masculine, both and neither.

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"I think it requires a lot more fierceness than I come into the world with."

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