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overaggressiveness

overaggressiveness noun: excessive aggression.

Noun

overaggressiveness (uncountable)

  1. Excessive aggression.
    • McGraw has been more abused than any other manager in baseball. In his early days, when a member of the Baltimore team, McGraw was far from being the quietest member of the club. He had arguments without number, and when he took up the duty of managing the Giants he carried with him the reputation...1913, New York Times, The New York Times 1913-10-05: Volume 62, Issue 20343, New York Times, page 2
    • It remains for the traffic man to steer a course between the rocks of overaggressiveness on the one hand and lack of legitimate aggressiveness on the other.1926, G. Lloyd Wilson, Traffic Management, D. Appleton and Company, page 343

Examples of overaggressiveness in a sentence

  • He had arguments without number, and when he took up the duty of managing the Giants he carried with him the reputation for overaggressiveness, in fact, a mania for trouble making.1913, New York Times, The New York Times 1913-10-05: Volume 62, Issue 20343, New York Times, page 2:
  • The partygoers, in turn, blamed the police for overaggressiveness.2007 July 15, Emily Brady, “Bedlam Comes to Visit a Drowsy Neighborhood”, in New York Times:

Origin of overaggressiveness

From overaggressive + -ness.

Questions about overaggressiveness

What does overaggressiveness mean?
Overaggressiveness means excessive aggression.
How do you use overaggressiveness in a sentence?
He had arguments without number, and when he took up the duty of managing the Giants he carried with him the reputation for overaggressiveness, in fact, a mania for trouble making.
What part of speech is overaggressiveness?
Overaggressiveness is a noun.

Words near overaggressiveness in the dictionary

  1. overaggregations
  2. overaggression
  3. overaggressions
  4. overaggressive
  5. overaggressively
  6. overaggressiveness
  7. overaging
  8. overagitate
  9. overagitated
  10. overagitates
  11. overagitating

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