| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Hostile behavior: aggression, aggressiveness, belligerence, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy. See ATTACK. 2. Warlike or hostile attitude or nature: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See ATTACK. 3. A state of open, prolonged fighting: conflict, confrontation, hostility (used in plural), strife, struggle, war, warfare. See CONFLICT. 4. The power or will to fight: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, combativeness, contentiousness, fight, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See CONFLICT.
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