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Militancy

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality of being militant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state of being militant; warfare.

n. A military spirit or system; militarism.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The condition of being militant; a state of warfare or conflict.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a militant aggressiveness

Word Usage

"The Pakistani official said the suspects are hiding in North Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal region where militancy is rife and where the U.S. has focused many of its drone-fired missile strikes."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

aggressiveness

Hyponym

scrappiness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

warfare militarism

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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