aggressiveness

noun
/əˈɡrɛsɪvnɪs/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English aggressiveness From aggressive + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being aggressive.

    • It was a randy aggressiveness he had enjoyed because he had not used or needed it before.
  2. The propensity of a soil or water to dissolve metal or cement structures.

    • The aggressiveness of various sulfate salts towards concrete is partly related to solubility.
  3. The result or product of being aggressive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aggressiveness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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