English
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From overaggressive + -ness.
Noun
[edit]overaggressiveness (uncountable)
- Excessive aggression.
- 1913, New York Times, The New York Times 1913-10-05: Volume 62, Issue 20343[1], New York Times, page 2:
- 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 for overaggressiveness, in fact, a mania for trouble making.
- 1926, G. Lloyd Wilson, Traffic Management[2], D. Appleton and Company, page 343:
- 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.
- 2007 July 15, Emily Brady, “Bedlam Comes to Visit a Drowsy Neighborhood”, in New York Times[3]:
- The partygoers, in turn, blamed the police for overaggressiveness.
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- English terms suffixed with -ness
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *upér
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