aggression

See also: Aggression

English

Etymology

From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹɛʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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:

     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:

     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. (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.

Antonyms

• nonaggression

Derived terms

• aggressionism
• aggressionist
• antiaggression
• autoaggression
• counteraggression
• cute aggression
• cyberaggression
• hyperaggression
• macroaggression
• microaggression
• nanoaggression
• non-aggression axiom
• non-aggression principle
• overaggression
• passive-aggression
• unaggression
• war of aggression

Related terms

• aggress
• aggressive
• aggressiveness
• aggressor

Translations

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: Mandarin: 侵略 (zh) (qīnlüè) 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: Bokmål: aggresjon (no) m 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: Cyrillic: агрѐсија f Roman: agrèsija (sh) f 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: Mandarin: 侵略 (zh) (qīnlüè) 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 (basqynşylyq) 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: Cyrillic: агрѐсија f Roman: agrèsija (sh) f Slovak: agresivita, agresívnosť

hostile or destructive behavior or actions

Armenian: ագրեսիա (hy) (agresia) Bulgarian: агре́сия (bg) f (agrésija) Chinese: Mandarin: 攻擊 / 攻击 (zh) (gōngjī, gōngjí) 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: Cyrillic: агрѐсија f Roman: agrèsija (sh) f Slovak: agresia Spanish: agresión (es) f

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Translations to be checked

Esperanto: (please verify) agresemo Latin: (please verify) aggressio (nominative), (please verify) aggressionis (genitive) Maltese: (please verify) aggressjoni

Further reading

• aggression on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aggression”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aggression”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Danish

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

Further reading

• “aggression” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

aggression

1. genitive singular of aggressio