Usually means: Aggression and willingness to fight.
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  1. bellicosity: Merriam-Webster
  2. bellicosity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bellicosity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bellicosity: Vocabulary.com
  5. bellicosity: Wordnik
  6. bellicosity: Wiktionary
  7. bellicosity: Dictionary.com
  8. bellicosity: FreeDictionary.org
  9. bellicosity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. bellicosity: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The characteristic of being bellicose.

Similar:
bellicoseness, warlikeness, belligerence, belligerency, boastfulness, boisterousness, blusteriness, brazenness, pugnacity, brashness, more...

Opposite:
pacifism, nonviolence, peaceability

Types:
belligerence, militarism, warmongering, jingoism, nationalism, imperialism, more...

Adjectives:
german, natural, american, such, verbal, chinese, soviet, revolutionary, french, greater, extreme

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Similar:
bellicoseness, warlikeness, belligerence, belligerency, boastfulness, boisterousness, blusteriness, brazenness, pugnacity, brashness, more...

Opposite:
pacifism, nonviolence, peaceability

Types:
belligerence, militarism, warmongering, jingoism, nationalism, imperialism, more...

Adjectives:
german, natural, american, such, verbal, chinese, soviet, revolutionary, french, greater, extreme



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