Aggression Definition

ə-grĕshən
noun
An unprovoked attack or warlike act; specif., the use of armed force by a state in violation of its international obligations.
Webster's New World
The practice or habit of taking hostile actions or launching military attacks.
Imperial aggression.
American Heritage
The practice or habit of being aggressive or quarrelsome.
Webster's New World
A hostile act or military attack.
Aggressions that led to full-scale war.
American Heritage
Forceful, attacking behavior, either constructively self-assertive and self-protective or destructively hostile to others or to oneself.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Aggression

Noun

Singular:
aggression
Plural:
aggressions

Origin of Aggression

  • From French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”).

    From Wiktionary

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