What does truculence mean?
Truculence means The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity..
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/ˈtrʌk.jə.ləns/ · noun
The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity..
To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence.
He was huge in all that he did, and his benevolence was even more overpowering than his truculence.
Dundy’s fists were clenched in front of his body and his feet were planted firm and a little apart on the floor, but the truculence in his face was modified by thin rims of white showing between green irises and upper eyelids.
Trump’s truculence on the world stage: “Everyone kowtows to Iran because they’re crazy. Now we have our own bit of crazy.”
Use truculence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Truculence means The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity..
Common synonyms include aggressiveness, defiance, ferociousness, savageness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence.
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