aggression

See also: Aggression

English

Aggression (sense 3) between children.

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
Latin gradior
Latin aggredior
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin aggressiōder.
Middle French aggressionbor.
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

    • (US) IPA(key): /əˈɡɹɛʃən/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Noun

    aggression (countable and uncountable, plural aggressions)

    1. 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], archived from the original on 14 March 2021:
        Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.
    2. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
    3. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
      • 2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, in LSE's blog‎[2], archived from the original on 31 August 2025:
        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.
    4. A desire for confrontation and often violence; an urge to physically harm something or someone.
    5. (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.

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    Further reading

    Danish

    Etymology

    From French agression, from Latin aggressio.

    Noun

    aggression c (singular definite aggressionen, plural indefinite aggressioner)

    1. aggression

    Declension

    Declension of aggression
    common
    gender     		singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative aggression aggressionen aggressioner aggressionerne
    genitive aggressions aggressionens aggressioners aggressionernes

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    Finnish

    Noun

    aggression

    1. genitive singular of aggressio
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