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Type Words
Synonyms belligerence, pugnacity
Type of disagreeableness
Has types bellicoseness, bellicosity, truculence, truculency
Derivation aggressive
Type Words
Synonyms aggression
Type of enmity, ill will, hostility
Type Words
Type of drive
Has types cheek, face, fight, brass, boldness, intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, militance, militancy, nerve, officiousness, competitiveness, combativeness
Derivation aggressive

Examples of aggressiveness

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Without Delgado, the Mets have shown a greater aggressiveness on the base paths.
From the nytimes.com
Rabies signs include sleepiness, fever, lack of coordination and aggressiveness.
From the stltoday.com
They have a toughness about them and aggressiveness, and obviously a confidence.
From the usatoday.com
Firstly, it can change its aggressiveness by monitoring other traders'behaviour.
From the newscientist.com
His aggressiveness under the basket gives Columbia a strong rebounding presence.
From the stltoday.com
Offensive aggressiveness with every ball possession hurt the Heat the first half.
From the theepochtimes.com
The general aggressiveness of the sea squirts is also a concern, Pederson said.
From the newsday.com
Wade noted Evans puts a lot of pressure on the defense with his aggressiveness.
From the sacbee.com
Late in the first half, with the score close, their aggressiveness took its toll.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • The quality of being bold and enterprising
  • Aggression: a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
  • A natural disposition to be hostile
  • In psychology, as well as other social and behavioral sciences, aggression (also called combativeness) refers to behavior between members of the same species that is intended to cause pain or harm. ...
  • The state or quality of being aggressive; The result or product of being aggressive
  • Attempting to get your own way in a dispute by putting physical or verbal pressure on the other person.
  • Of a plant pathogen: relative ability to colonize and cause damage to plants. (21) See also virulence. (Note: The Federation of British Plant Pathologists, now the British Society for Plant Pathology, has rejected this term and considered it to be synonymous with pathogenicity.) (8)
  • Counterpart of race-non-specific resistance; the ability of the isolate to grow vigorously on or in its host. The more aggressive an isolate of a pathogen is the more of the host tissue it can invade in a given time.
  • The expression of one's own thoughts and feelings at another's expense.