aggression has definitions from the field of military
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[ noun ] a disposition to behave aggressively

Used in print

(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)

Although in both emotions sympathetic symptoms are present , different autonomic somatic patterns underlie aggression and anxiety , respectively , as indicated by the rate of the excretion of the catecholamines , the state of the muscle_tone , and the Mecholyl_test .

Related terms

unfriendliness

2
[ noun ] violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

Synonyms

hostility

Used in print

(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)

After this holocaust , a changing world occupied the minds of men ; a world beset with new boundaries , new treaties and governments , new goals and methods , and the age-old fears of aggression and subjugation - hunger and exposure .

3
[ noun ] a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack

Synonyms

aggressiveness

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

Landesco thought him `` just a superior sort of plugugly '' but he was , in_fact , with his aggression and hostility , and nerveless indifference to risking or administering pain , a casebook psychopath .

Related terms

hostility

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[ noun ] (military) the act of initiating hostilities

Related terms

combat war

5
[ noun ] deliberately unfriendly behavior
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