ferality

The quality of being feral.

Noun

  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,...

    Synonyms: feralness ferity wildness brutishness

    Coordinate Terms: ferociousness ferocity fierceness

Origin

From feral + -ity.

Related

in the wild