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ferality

ferality noun: the quality of being feral.

Noun

ferality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being feral.
    • Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness
    • Perhaps ferality is only a stage for a housecat. A Swedish study suggests that males go through a sequence of life stages: from Novices to Outcasts to Challengers to Breeders.1985, Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, volume 12, page 166

Synonyms of ferality

Origin of ferality

From feral + -ity.

Questions about ferality

What does ferality mean?
Ferality means the quality of being feral.
What part of speech is ferality?
Ferality is a noun.

Words near ferality in the dictionary

  1. feralisation
  2. feralise
  3. feralised
  4. feralises
  5. feralising
  6. ferality
  7. feralization
  8. feralize
  9. feralized
  10. feralizes
  11. feralizing

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