Aggression (Noun)
Meaning 1
Deliberately unfriendly behavior.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
The act of initiating hostilities.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 3
A feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack.
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Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
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Meaning 4
A disposition to behave aggressively.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- His natural aggression on the soccer field made him a force to be reckoned with by opposing teams.
- Throughout history, the development of weapons has often been driven by perceived threats and the consequent nation-state aggression.
- The police had been called to the property after reports of aggression from the occupant towards a neighbor.
- Her aggression had become an issue as she stepped further into the public eye, from politics to the private sector.
- He had always known he had an animalistic aggression within himself, from the earliest days which he could remember as a child.
Meaning 5
Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.