fierceness

Other forms of fierceness

plural

fiercenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fierceness

What does fierceness mean?

fierceness means "the property of being wild or turbulent".

How many syllables are in fierceness?

fierceness has 3 syllables: fier-ce-ness. The stress falls on "fier".

What is another word for fierceness?

Close synonyms include ferocity, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fierceness a common word?

fierceness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.