| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Hostile behavior: aggression, aggressiveness, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, militance, militancy. See ATTACK. 2. Warlike or hostile attitude or nature: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, militance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See ATTACK. 3. A state of open, prolonged fighting. Used in plural: belligerency, conflict, confrontation, strife, struggle, war, warfare. See CONFLICT. 4. Deep-seated hatred, as between longtime opponents or rivals: animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, ill will. See LOVE.
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