noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being militant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
militancy
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmɪlɪtənsi/
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CMU ARPABET: M IH1 L AH0 T AH0 N S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a militant aggressiveness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: combativeness, militance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aggressiveness
Narrower terms: scrappiness
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: войнственост (vojnstvenost) — quality of being militant
- Catalan: militància — quality of being militant
- French: militance — quality of being militant
- German: Militanz — quality of being militant
- Greek: μαχητικότητα (machitikótita) — quality of being militant
- Italian: militanza — quality of being militant
- Portuguese: militância — quality of being militant
- Russian: вои́нственность (voínstvennostʹ) — quality of being militant
- Spanish: militancia — quality of being militant