HAWKISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hawkishness mean? 

• HAWKISHNESS (noun)
  The noun HAWKISHNESS has 1 sense:

1. any political orientation favoring aggressive policies

  Familiarity information: HAWKISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWKISHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any political orientation favoring aggressive policies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("hawkishness" is a kind of...):

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hawkishness"):

militarism (a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests)

war advocacy; warmongering (a policy of advocating war)

Antonym:

dovishness (any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict)

Derivation:

hawkish (disposed to warfare or hard-line policies)