pugnaciousness

When they began feeding upon the tiny forms of life found in the creek, the Bully soon gained a reputation for pugnaciousness.

Even his burnished red pomadour added to the general pugnaciousness of his appearance.

One evening the latter thought fit to twit him with his pugnaciousness.

There was about him at thirty-four, an aristocratic pugnaciousness.

There's a latent pugnaciousness in the very way that you mention her name.