Usually means: Aggressiveness; readiness to fight, quarrel.
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  1. pugnaciousness: Merriam-Webster
  2. pugnaciousness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pugnaciousness: Wordnik
  4. pugnaciousness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. pugnaciousness: Wiktionary
  6. pugnaciousness: Dictionary.com
  7. pugnaciousness: FreeDictionary.org
  8. pugnaciousness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pugnaciousness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act or quality of being pugnacious.

Similar:
puggishness, pungency, aggressiveness, pushfulness, disputatiousness, pushiness, truculence, quarrelsomeness, fistiness, feistiness, more...

Opposite:
peacefulness, non-aggressiveness, pacifism

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Similar:
puggishness, pungency, aggressiveness, pushfulness, disputatiousness, pushiness, truculence, quarrelsomeness, fistiness, feistiness, more...

Opposite:
peacefulness, non-aggressiveness, pacifism



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