overaggressiveness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive English overaggressive Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English overaggressiveness From overaggressive + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Excessive 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 Times: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 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: