Synonyms for violence
Definitions
- n. 1
Extreme force.
The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.
Related words
- Word family
- violent violate violation
- Phrases
- do violence to intimate partner violence silence is violence domestic violence
- Is a kind of
- force
Forms
- Plural
- violences → furies, ferocities, fiercenesses, wildnesses…
Example sentences
- fury It was time for the Numidians to vent their fury.
- ferocity His expression is full of ferocity and astonishment at the same time.
- wildness Oleg kept disappearing in the wildness.
- injury An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- assault Tom currently faces charges of aggravated assault.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| violence | rising | |
| fury | rising | |
| ferocity | rising | |
| wildness | rising | |
| fierceness | rising | |
| injury | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- heat1, rage1, fury2
- 5 letters
- force1
- 6 letters
- injury3
- 7 letters
- passion2, assault2, outrage2
- 8 letters
- strength1, severity4, ferocity4, wildness2
- 9 letters
- violation4, intensity4, sharpness2, roughness2, poignancy3, vehemence3
- 10 letters
- constraint2, fierceness
- 11 letters
- impetuosity, furiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fury2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- violence
- Italiano
- violenza
- Español
- violencia
- Deutsch
- Gewalttätigkeit
- Català
- violència