Noun: aggression
| Singular | aggression |
| Plural | aggressions |
Sample Sentences
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Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression. [2019 April 28, Hagai El-Ad, “What kind of democracy deports human rights workers?”, in Yoni Molad, transl., +972 Magazine:]
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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. [2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, in LSE's blog:]
Nouns inflected like aggression
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
7. Latin gradior
8. Latin aggredior
9. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
10. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
11. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
12. Proto-Italic *-tiō
13. Latin -tiō
14. Latin aggressiōder.
15. Middle French aggressionbor.
16. English aggression
17. From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”). By surface analysis, ag- + -gress + -ion. See: Latin Nouns '
aggressio'.
Verbs referencing "aggression"
Finnish Nouns
aggressio.