noun
- Warlike or hostile attitude or nature: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See attack/defend.
- Hostile behavior: aggression, aggressiveness, belligerence, belligerency, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy. See attack/defend.
- The power or will to fight: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, contentiousness, fight, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See conflict/cooperation.
- The quality or state of being argumentative: argumentativeness, contentiousness, disputatiousness, litigiousness, scrappiness. See conflict/cooperation.
