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belligerency

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of belligerency

an inclination to fight or quarrel

an inveterate belligerency that needs to be addressed by classes in anger management

Synonyms of belligerency

aggression, aggressiveness, assaultiveness, bellicosity, belligerence, combativeness, contentiousness, defiance, disputatiousness, feistiness, fight, militance, militancy, militantness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, scrappiness, truculence

Words Related to belligerency

antagonism, fierceness, hostility, hyperaggressiveness, unfriendliness

imperialism, jingoism, militarism

acidity, biliousness, captiousness, crankiness, crossness, disagreeableness, fractiousness, fretfulness, grouchiness, grumpiness, huffiness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, irritableness, orneriness, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, querulousness, rudeness, surliness, testiness, waspishness

Phrases Synonymous with belligerency

chip on one's shoulder

Near Antonyms of belligerency

antiaggression, anti-imperialism, antimilitarism

affability, amiability, amicability, benevolence, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, graciousness, pleasantness, sociability

gentleness, kindliness, mildness

amenability, complaisance, placability

Antonyms of belligerency

nonaggression, pacifism

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