'Belligerence' definitions:
Definition of 'belligerence'
From: WordNet
noun
Hostile or warlike attitude or nature [syn: belligerence, belligerency]
noun
A natural disposition to be hostile [syn: aggressiveness, belligerence, pugnacity]
Definition of 'Belligerence'
From: GCIDE
- Belligerence \Bel*lig"er*ence\, Belligerency \Bel*lig"er*en*cy\, n. The quality of being belligerent. [1913 Webster]
- 2. the act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare.
- Syn: hostilities. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. an aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
Synonyms of 'belligerence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- all-out war,
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- appeal to arms,
- argumentativeness,
- armed combat,
- armed conflict,
- attack,
- battle,
- bellicism,
- bellicosity,
- belligerency,
- bickering,
- bloodshed,
- chauvinism,
- clash,
- clashing,
- collision,
- combat,
- combativeness,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- despitefulness,
- disputatiousness,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- faction,
- factiousness,
- ferocity,
- fierceness,
- fight,
- fighting,
- flak,
- friction,
- hate,
- hatred,
- hostilities,
- hostility,
- hot war,
- infighting,
- irascibility,
- irritability,
- jingoism,
- la guerre,
- litigiousness,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignity,
- martialism,
- might of arms,
- militancy,
- militarism,
- military operations,
- open hostilities,
- open war,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- pugnaciousness,
- pugnacity,
- quarrelsomeness,
- repugnance,
- resort to arms,
- saber rattling,
- shooting war,
- shrewishness,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- state of war,
- the sword,
- total war,
- truculence,
- unfriendliness,
- unpeacefulness,
- war,
- warfare,
- warmaking,
- warmongering,
- warpath,
- warring,
- wartime