noun
- Warlike or hostile attitude or nature: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence. See attack/defend.
- The power or will to fight: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, fight, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence. See conflict/cooperation.
- A cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior: barbarity, bestiality, brutality, cruelty, inhumanity, savagery, truculence. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, kind/cruel.
