militancy
mil·i·tan·cy
noun \-tən(t)-sē\Definition of MILITANCY
: the quality or state of being militant
Examples of MILITANCY
- <the militancy of the radical organization made the authorities a little nervous>
First Known Use of MILITANCY
1648
Related to MILITANCY
Synonyms: aggression, aggressiveness, assaultiveness, bellicosity, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, defiance, disputatiousness, feistiness, fight, militance, belligerence, militantness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, scrappiness, truculence
Antonyms: nonaggression, pacifism
Related Words: antagonism, fierceness, hostility, hyperaggressiveness, unfriendliness; imperialism, jingoism, militarism; acidity, biliousness, captiousness, crabbiness, crankiness, crossness, disagreeableness, fractiousness, fretfulness, grouchiness, grumpiness, huffiness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, irritableness, orneriness, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, querulousness, rudeness, surliness, testiness, waspishness
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