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benlk / ranked-situational-fury

Inspired by https://twitter.com/thebestsophist/status/652130815011258368, a list of non-ableist words for use to describe bad situations.
https://benlk.github.io/ranked-situational-fury/
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Define "situational fury" #3

Closed benlk closed 9 years ago

benlk commented 9 years ago

There don't appear to be any good definitions of "situational fury" out there.

Fury is defined by Google as:

wild or violent anger.

"tears of fury and frustration" synonyms: rage, anger, wrath, outrage, spleen, temper; More antonyms: good humor a surge of violent anger or other feeling.

noun: a fury

"in a fury, he lashed the horse on" violence or energy displayed in natural phenomena or in someone's actions.

plural noun: furies "the fury of a gathering storm"

synonyms: fierceness, ferocity, violence, turbulence, tempestuousness, savagery; More antonyms: mildness

Situational:

a thing in regards to surroundings or circumstances

So perhaps a situational fury is:

anger at the circumstances and context of a thing or idea, expressed through rage, anger, outrage, wrath, temper, or spleen, and accompanied by fierceness, ferocity, turbulence, tempestuousness.