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militancy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun militancy has 1 sense
- militancy(n = noun.attribute) combativeness, militance - a militant aggressiveness; Array is a kind of aggressiveness
has particulars: scrappiness
Derived form adjective militant2
CIDE DICTIONARY
militancy, n. [See Militant.].
- The state of being militant; warfare. [1913 Webster]
- A military spirit or system; militarism. H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
militancy
action, activeness, activism, activity, aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, business, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, doings, fight, goings-on, hostility, jingoism, martialism, militarism, motion, movement, political activism, proceedings, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, stir, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering, warpath
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