Definition: an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Usage: he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one
Similar words: aggression, hostility
Definition: violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
Synonyms: vehemence, wildness, violence, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury
Definition: the property of being wild or turbulent
Usage: the storm's violence
Similar words: intensity, intensiveness
Definition: high level or degree; the property of being intense
Synonyms: violence
Definition: a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Similar words: Sturm und Drang, turbulence, upheaval
Definition: a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
Usage: the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence