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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: Aggression
English
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Etymology
[edit ]Etymology tree
Latin aggredior
English aggression
From Middle French aggression , from Latin aggressio , from aggressus , past participle of aggredior ("to approach, address, attack"). By surface analysis, ag- + -gress + -ion .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]aggression (countable and uncountable , plural aggressions )
- The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- 2019 April 28, Hagai El-Ad, "What kind of democracy deports human rights workers?", in Yoni Molad, transl., +972 Magazine [1] :
- Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not "defensive": they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.
- The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
- 2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, "Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union", in LSE's blog[2] :
- The decision to impose a steel and aluminum tariff is an act of aggression which makes trade war between the two pillars of the West a grim possibility.
- A desire for confrontation and often violence; an urge to physically harm something or someone.
- (libertarianism ) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
Synonyms
[edit ]Antonyms
[edit ]Derived terms
[edit ]- aggressionism
- aggressionist
- antiaggression
- autoaggression
- counteraggression
- cute aggression
- cuteness aggression
- cyberaggression
- hyperaggression
- macroaggression
- microaggression
- nanoaggression
- non-aggression axiom
- non-aggression principle
- overaggression
- passive-aggression
- unaggression
- war of aggression
Related terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]act of initiating hostilities or invasion
- Afrikaans: aggressie
- Albanian: agresion (sq) m
- Arabic: عُدْوَان (ar) m (ʕudwān)
- Armenian: ագրեսիա (hy) (agresia)
- Azerbaijani: təcavüz (az)
- Belarusian: агрэ́сія f (ahrésija)
- Bulgarian: агре́сия (bg) f (agrésija), нападе́ние (bg) n (napadénie) (act)
- Catalan: agressió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: tecavuz , agressiya
- Czech: agrese (cs) f
- Danish: aggression c
- Dutch: agressie (nl) f
- Esperanto: agreso
- Estonian: agressioon
- Finnish: hyökkäys (fi)
- French: agression (fr) f
- Galician: agresión (gl) f
- Georgian: აგრესია (agresia)
- German: Aggression (de) f, Angriff (de) m
- Greek: επιθετικότητα (el) f (epithetikótita)
- Hebrew: תּוֹקְפָנוּת f (tokfanút)
- Hungarian: agresszió (hu)
- Indonesian: agresi (id)
- Italian: aggressione (it) f
- Japanese: 侵略 (ja) (しんりゃく, shinryaku)
- Khmer: អធិក្រម (km) (ʼaʼthikrɑm), ការឈ្លានពាន (kaa chliən piən), អន្តរាគមន៍ (km) (ʼɑntaʼraakum)
- Korean: 침략(侵略) (ko) (chimnyak)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دەس درێژی (des drêjî)
- Lao: ການຮຸກຮານ (kān huk hān)
- Latvian: agresija f
- Lithuanian: agrèsija f
- Malay: pencerobohan
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: түрэмгийлэл (mn) (türemgiilel)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: agression (oc) f
- Persian: تَجاوُز (fa) (tajâvoz), پرخاش (fa) (parxāš)
- Polish: agresja (pl) f
- Portuguese: agressão (pt) f
- Romanian: agresiune (ro) f
- Russian: агре́ссия (ru) f (agréssija), нападе́ние (ru) n (napadénije) (act)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: agresia f
- Slovene: agresija (sl) f
- Spanish: agresión (es) f
- Swedish: aggression (sv) c
- Tajik: таҷовуз (tajovuz), агрессия (tg) (agressiya)
- Thai: ความก้าวร้าว (th) (kwaam-gâao-ráao), การรุกราน (th) (gaan-rúk-raan)
- Turkish: saldırganlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: агре́сія (uk) f (ahrésija)
- Vietnamese: xâm lược (vi)
- Yiddish: אַגרעסיע f (agresye)
the practice or habit of launching attacks
- Afrikaans: aggressie
- Arabic: عِدْوَان (ar) m (ʕidwān)
- Armenian: ագրեսիվություն (hy) (agresivutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: агреси́вност (bg) f (agresívnost)
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: tecavuz , agressiya
- Dutch: agressie (nl)
- Finnish: väkivaltaisuus (fi) , hyökkäävyys (fi)
- French: agression (fr) f
- German: Aggression (de) f
- Italian: aggressione (it) f
- Japanese: 侵略 (ja) (しんりゃく, shinryaku)
- Kazakh: басқыншылық (basqınšılıq)
- Korean: 침략(侵略) (ko) (chimnyak)
- Persian: پرخاش (fa) (parxāš)
- Portuguese: agressão (pt) f
- Romanian: agresiune (ro) f
- Russian: агре́ссия (ru) f (agréssija), агресси́вность (ru) f (agressívnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: agresivita , agresívnosť
hostile or destructive behavior or actions
- Armenian: ագրեսիա (hy) (agresia)
- Bulgarian: агре́сия (bg) f (agrésija)
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: tecavuz , agressiya
- Finnish: väkivaltaisuus (fi) , hyökkäävyys (fi)
- French: agression (fr) f
- German: Aggression (de) f
- Greek: επιθετικότητα (el) f (epithetikótita)
- Italian: aggressione (it) f
- Japanese: 攻撃 (ja) (こうげき, kōgeki)
- Khmer: ការឈ្លានពាន (kaa chliən piən)
- Korean: 공격(攻擊) (ko) (gonggyeok)
- Manx: aggair m
- Navajo: hashké nídzin
- Persian: پرخاش (fa) (parxāš)
- Portuguese: agressão (pt) f
- Romanian: agresiune (ro) f
- Russian: агре́ссия (ru) f (agréssija), нападе́ние (ru) n (napadénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: miann còmhraig m or f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: agresia
- Spanish: agresión (es) f
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
- Esperanto: (please verify) agresemo
- Latin: (please verify) aggressio (nominative), (please verify) aggressionis (genitive)
- Maltese: (please verify) aggressjoni
Further reading
[edit ]- aggression on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- "aggression", in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), "aggression", in The Century Dictionary [...], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Danish
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From French agression , from Latin aggressio .
Noun
[edit ]aggression c (singular definite aggressionen , plural indefinite aggressioner )
Declension
[edit ]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | aggression | aggressionen | aggressioner | aggressionerne |
| genitive | aggressions | aggressionens | aggressioners | aggressionernes |
Further reading
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ghredh-
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