aggression

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.

   Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.

2. 2
   noun

   Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.

   The decision to impose a steel and aluminum tariff is an act of aggression which makes trade war between the two pillars of the West a grim possibility.

3. 3
   noun

   violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

4. 4
   noun

   deliberately unfriendly behavior

5. 5
   noun

   the act of initiating hostilities

6. 6
   noun

   a disposition to behave aggressively

7. 7
   noun

   a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack

8. 8
   noun

   The practice or habit of launching attacks.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin aggressiōder. Middle French aggressionbor. English aggression From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”). By surface analysis, aggress + -ion.