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Aggressiveness vs Adaptation - What's the difference?

aggressiveness | adaptation |

In uncountable terms the difference between aggressiveness and adaptation

is that aggressiveness is the state or quality of being aggressive while adaptation is adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.

In countable terms the difference between aggressiveness and adaptation

is that aggressiveness is the result or product of being aggressive while adaptation is something which has been adapted; variation.

aggressiveness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being aggressive.
  • (countable) The result or product of being aggressive.

    • adaptation

    English

    (wikipedia adaptation)

    Noun

  • (label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
  • (label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
  • * {{quote-book, title=, year=1911
    • , passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}
  • (label) Something which has been adapted; variation.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910
    • , passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}

    Derived terms

    {{der3, adaptational , adaptationism , adaptationist}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, adapt , adaptability , adaptedness , adapter , adaption , adaptitude , co-adaptation}}