Pugnacity

/pʌɡnˈasɪti/

/pʌɡnˈæsɪɾi/

[noun]

Pugnacity

[NOUN]

eagerness to start a fight or argument

synonyms : aggressiveness

belligerence

Examples

1. He is my very good friend and collaborator, Jean-François Brunet, who is a biologist and without whose patience and pugnacity, we would never have been able to grow brain cells.

2. Ford rightly saw that a battle for English culture was under way here, and that avant-gardist pugnacity served a serious social purpose.