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aggression

noun
/əˈɡɹɛʃən/US

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 *-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.

  1. derived from aggressio
  2. borrowed from aggression

Definitions

  1. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.

    • 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.

    • 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. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The initiation or threat of conflict

      The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at aggression. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at aggression. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at aggression

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA