hyperaggressiveness

noun

Definition of hyperaggressivenessnext
as in antagonism

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  1. antagonism
  2. unfriendliness
  3. hostility
  4. militancy
  5. aggression
  6. militance
Noun
  • Both stories are unusually accurate in their sense of hostile inclusion, with French pioneers, Native tribes and white Americans in a state of perpetual antagonism.
    Chris Vognar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Yet Trump’s position as president of the United States—the largest funder and primary backer of numerous international organizations—makes his antagonism uniquely consequential.
    Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of antagonism
Noun
  • Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.
    Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Definition of unfriendliness
Noun
  • For example, shrinking the size and scope of government is a goal which could help the country, but reducing or trimming government programs for almost any constituency would be fraught with hostility and political costs.
    Frank Lavin, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Just more than 100 were released in late November 2023 during a pause in hostilities, in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of hostility
Noun
  • This kind of militancy is no longer beneath the surface, and it is aimed at fellow Americans and at fellow Christians who do not toe the line.
    John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The twining of white victimhood and labor militancy created conflicts within the working class that would persist for decades.
    Gunther Peck / Made by History, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of militancy
Noun
  • Not just because of his physicality, aggression and reading of the game but because his work on the ball will have to improve significantly during his time at City.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In his four years as secretary of state, Antony Blinken has traveled more than a million miles on the job, countering Russian aggression in Ukraine with a reinvigorated NATO alliance, and managing American interests in the ongoing turmoil across the Middle East.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of aggression
Noun
  • This is compounded by the economic impacts of the Trump trade pressures, the global backlash of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the declining fortunes of national technology champion Huawei, and other reactions to growing China militance and chauvinism.
    Therese Shaheen, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The flamboyance, militance, and violence of the 1960s left might not have worked right away, after all.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Jan. 2022
Definition of militance
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