truculency

1. 1.

   obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness

   Synonymstruculence

   Broaderaggressiveness

Other forms of truculency

plural

truculencies·

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 truculency

What does truculency mean?

truculency means "obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness".

How many syllables are in truculency?

truculency has 4 syllables: tru-cu-len-cy. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for truculency?

Close synonyms include truculence. 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 truculency a common word?

truculency 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.