Definitions:

1. an act of aggression, as one against a person who resists noun
   • They may accomplish by craft in the long run what they cannot do by force and violence in the short one.
2. the property of being wild or turbulent noun
   • the storm's violence

Synonyms:

• ferocity
• fierceness
• force
• furiousness
• fury
• vehemence
• wildness