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fierceness
[ feers-nis ]
noun
- 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.
- violent force, intensity, etc.:
Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating.
- furious eagerness or intensity of emotion, etc.:
As I read her novel my heart was moved by the fierceness of her love for humanity.
- 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.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ··ھ·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fierceness1
Example Sentences
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.
The fierceness of the defence obviously stayed with Goldie - he later saw a poodle and hastily flew away.
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.
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.
"I think it requires a lot more fierceness than I come into the world with."
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