aggressiveness
Noun
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The quality of being bold and enterprising (synset 104844463)
hypernym: drive - the trait of being highly motivatedhyponym:
- competitiveness, fight - an aggressive willingness to compete
- combativeness, militance, militancy - a militant aggressiveness
- intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, officiousness - aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation
- boldness, brass, cheek, face, nerve - impudent aggressiveness
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A feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack (synset 107564033)
synonym: aggression
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A natural disposition to be hostile (synset 104651019)
hypernym: disagreeableness - an ill-tempered and offensive dispositionhyponym:
- bellicoseness, bellicosity - a natural disposition to fight
- truculence, truculency - obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
synonym: belligerence, pugnacity
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