fierceness

English

Etymology

fierce +‎ -ness

Noun

fierceness (usually uncountable; plural fiercenesses)

1. The state of being fierce.
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 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.

Translations

state of being fierce

• French: acharnement (fr) m

• Latin: immanitas (la)