bellicosity
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bellicosity — 1857, from BELLICOSE (Cf. bellicose) + ITY (Cf. ity) … Etymology dictionary
bellicosity — bellicose ► ADJECTIVE ▪ aggressive and ready to fight. DERIVATIVES bellicosity noun. ORIGIN Latin bellicosus, from bellum war … English terms dictionary
bellicosity — noun see bellicose … New Collegiate Dictionary
bellicosity — See bellicosely. * * * … Universalium
bellicosity — noun The characteristic of being bellicose … Wiktionary
bellicosity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Warlike or hostile attitude or nature: bellicoseness, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See ATTACK. 2.… … English dictionary for students
bellicosity — bel·li·cos·i·ty … English syllables
bellicosity — See: bellicose … English dictionary
bellicosity — noun a natural disposition to fight • Syn: ↑bellicoseness • Hypernyms: ↑aggressiveness, ↑belligerence, ↑pugnacity … Useful english dictionary
hostility — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. enmity, hatred, abhorrence, aversion; see hatred 1 , malice , resentment . See Synonym Study at enmity . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. unfriendliness antagonism, malevolence, hatred, ill will, enmity, animus,… … English dictionary for students
