militancy

1. 1.

   a militant aggressiveness

   Synonymscombativenessmilitance

   Broaderaggressiveness

   Narrowerscrappiness

Other forms of militancy

plural

militancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about militancy

What does militancy mean?

militancy means "a militant aggressiveness".

How many syllables are in militancy?

militancy has 4 syllables: mil-i-tan-cy. The stress falls on "mil". In IPA it is /ˈmɪlətənsi/.

What is another word for militancy?

Close synonyms include combativeness, militance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is militancy a common word?

militancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.