Assertion vs Hostility - What's the difference?
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The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
(computing) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
(uncountable) The state of being hostile.
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(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
As nouns the difference between assertion and hostility
is that assertion is the act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced while hostility is the state of being hostile.assertion
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- There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
Everton 0-2 Liverpool, passage=But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.}}
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.