Meanings
nounferality (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being feral.
Near-synonyms: wildness, brutishness
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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 166Synonyms: feralness, ferity, wildness, brutishness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being feral.
Origin
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