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bellicosity

English

Etymology

bellicose +? -osity

Pronunciation

  • (non-merged vowel) IPA(key): /?b?l??k?s?ti/
  • (merged vowel) IPA(key): /?b?l??k?s?ti/

Noun

bellicosity (countable and uncountable, plural bellicosities)

  1. The characteristic of being bellicose.
    • 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes[1]
      The timing is intriguing too. Before this news North Korea was all bellicosity and bluster.

Synonyms

  • martiality

Translations

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bellicism

English

Etymology

From Latin bellic(us) +? -ism.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?b?l?s?zm?/

Noun

bellicism (uncountable)

  1. An inclination to war; warlike policy or behaviour.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 295:
      Not all of France was inundated by the nationalist wave – it was predominantly young, intelligent Parisians who embraced the new bellicism […].

Synonyms

  • militarism
  • warmongerism

Antonyms

  • pacifism

Related terms

  • bellicist
  • bellicose

Translations

See also

  • possessionism
  • supremacistic
  • territorialist
  • governmentism
  • supervisionist
  • powerism
  • imperialistic
  • apartheidism
  • bloodthirster

References

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bellicism

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