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COMBATIVENESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does combativeness mean?

• COMBATIVENESS (noun)
The noun COMBATIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. a militant aggressiveness

Familiarity information: COMBATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COMBATIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A militant aggressiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

combativeness; militance; militancy

Hypernyms ("combativeness" is a kind of...):

aggressiveness (the quality of being bold and enterprising)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "combativeness"):

scrappiness (the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious)

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