Usually means: Aggressively defiant, hostile behavior display.
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  1. truculence: Merriam-Webster
  2. truculence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. truculence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. truculence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. truculence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Truculence, truculence: Wordnik
  7. truculence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. truculence: Wiktionary
  9. truculence: Dictionary.com
  10. Truculence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. truculence: Rhymezone
  12. Truculence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. truculence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. truculence: FreeDictionary.org
  15. truculence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. truculence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. truculence: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (truculence)

▸ noun:  The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity.

Similar:
truculency, pugnacity, fierceness, ferociousness, ferocity, feistiness, ferity, turgency, fractiousness, treacherousness, more...

Opposite:
docility, meekness, gentleness, submissiveness

Types:
verbal aggression, physical aggression, passive aggression, hostility, belligerence, combativeness, defiance, argumentativeness, more...

Adjectives:
certain, such, old, sudden, german, former, usual, extreme, general, occasional, soviet

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Similar:
truculency, pugnacity, fierceness, ferociousness, ferocity, feistiness, ferity, turgency, fractiousness, treacherousness, more...

Opposite:
docility, meekness, gentleness, submissiveness

Types:
verbal aggression, physical aggression, passive aggression, hostility, belligerence, combativeness, defiance, argumentativeness, more...

Adjectives:
certain, such, old, sudden, german, former, usual, extreme, general, occasional, soviet



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