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bellicosity

/ˌbɛlɪˈkɒsɪti/

bellicosity noun: the characteristic of being bellicose.

Noun

bellicosity (countable and uncountable, plural bellicosities)

  1. The characteristic of being bellicose.
    • The timing is intriguing too. Before this news North Korea was all bellicosity and bluster.29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumeshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17213948
    Synonyms:
    martiality

bellicosity meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu

bellicosity in Hindi

characteristic of being bellicose
आक्रामकता ākrāmaktā

bellicosity in Tamil

போர் விருப்பம்

bellicosity in Urdu

جنگ طلبی, لڑاکا پن

Synonyms of bellicosity

Forms of bellicosity

pluralbellicosities

Origin of bellicosity

From bellicose + -osity.

Questions about bellicosity

What does bellicosity mean?
Bellicosity means the characteristic of being bellicose.
What is bellicosity in Hindi?
Bellicosity in Hindi is आक्रामकता (ākrāmaktā). See Bellicosity meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bellicosity?
Bellicosity is a noun.
How do you pronounce bellicosity?
Bellicosity is pronounced /ˌbɛlɪˈkɒsɪti/.
What is the plural of bellicosity?
The plural of bellicosity is bellicosities.

Words near bellicosity in the dictionary

  1. bellicists
  2. bellicose
  3. bellicosely
  4. bellicoseness
  5. bellicosities
  6. bellicosity
  7. bellicostic
  8. bellicous
  9. bellidiflorin
  10. bellidoite
  11. bellied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bellicosity (page history and authors); bellicosity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bellicosity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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