aggression
The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
Other meanings
The practice or habit of launching attacks.
Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
Related words
- aggressionism
- aggressionist
- antiaggression
- autoaggression
- counteraggression
- cute aggression
- cyberaggression
- hyperaggression
- macroaggression
- microaggression
- nanoaggression
- non-aggression axiom
Word history
From Latin "aggressio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “aggression” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.