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Aggression vs Ingression - What's the difference?

aggression | ingression | Related terms |

Ingression is a related term of aggression.



As nouns the difference between aggression and ingression

is that aggression is the act of initiating hostilities or invasion while ingression is the act or process of entering or intruding.

aggression

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
  • The practice or habit of launching attacks.
  • Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
  • Antonyms

    * nonaggression

    Derived terms

    * war of aggression * microaggression

    ingression

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of entering or intruding
  • ingression of the sea onto land
  • (metaphysics) The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality
  • *{{quote-book, 1967, Whitehead's Metaphysics, Edward Pols citation
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  • (biology) The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation
  • *{{quote-book, 1940, Libbie Henrietta Hyman, The Invertebrates, page=496
  • , passage=Ingression' of ectodermal cells from the area between the velar lobes establishes the cerebral ganglia and similar ' ingressions produce the other ganglia. }}