Usually means: Aggressiveness; readiness to fight, quarrel.
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  3. pugnacity: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. pugnacity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  10. pugnacity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. pugnacity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. pugnacity: Free Dictionary
  15. pugnacity: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pugnacity)

▸ noun:  The act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.

Similar:
quarrelsomeness, belligerence, aggressiveness, contentiousness, combativeness, puggishness, truculence, pushiness, pungency, pushfulness, more...

Opposite:
pacifism, nonviolence, passivity

Adjectives:
natural, innate, native, extreme, certain, human, old, collective, instinctive, sheer, more



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Similar:
quarrelsomeness, belligerence, aggressiveness, contentiousness, combativeness, puggishness, truculence, pushiness, pungency, pushfulness, more...

Opposite:
pacifism, nonviolence, passivity

Adjectives:
natural, innate, native, extreme, certain, human, old, collective, instinctive, sheer, more



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