Meanings
- uncountableExcessive aggression.
The partygoers, in turn, blamed the police for overaggressiveness.
2007 July 15, Emily Brady, “Bedlam Comes to Visit a Drowsy Neighborhood”, in New York Times2 more examples
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.
1913, New York Times, The New York Times 1913-10-05: Volume 62, Issue 20343, New York Times, page 2It 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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰredʰ-
- Latingradior
- Latinaggredior
- Latinaggressu
- Englishaggress
- Englishaggressive
- Englishoveraggressive
- Englishoveraggressiveness
From overaggressive + -ness.
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