noun
- the quality or state of being fell; cruelty, fierceness, or severity
Usage: archaic or literary
Examples
- The fellness of the winter storm forced the travelers to seek shelter.
- The villain's fellness was evident in every cruel act he committed.
- Medieval chronicles often described the fellness of invading armies.
- Her words carried a fellness that wounded those who heard them.
- The fellness of the beast made it a formidable opponent.