Difference between Hostility and Belligerency

HOSTILITY vs BELLIGERENCY: NOUN

Acts of overt warfare
The feeling of a hostile person
A state of deep-seated ill-will
Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
The state of being hostile; antagonism or enmity. : enmity.
A hostile act.
Acts of war; overt warfare.
The state of being hostile; inimical feeling; antagonism.
Hostile action; open opposition by war or other means; especially, in the plural, acts of warfare.
A hostile act which follows a declaration of war.
Synonyms Animosity, Ill-will, Enmity (see animosity); unfriendliness, opposition, violence, aggression.
War, fighting.
State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities
The state of being hostile.
A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
A hostile (very unfriendly) disposition

Acts of overt warfare
Hostile or warlike attitude or nature
The state of being at war or being engaged in a warlike conflict.
Belligerence.
Position or status as a belligerent; the state of being actually engaged in war.
The state of being at war or in an armed conflict
Hostile or aggressive behaviour
The willingness to fight; belligerence
Fighting; acts of overt warfare

Hate, Confrontation, Harassment, Ire, Backlash, Hostile, Xenophobia, Animus, Hatred, Animosity, Ill will, Belligerency, Aggression, Enmity, Antagonism

Secessionism, Hegemony, Hegemon, Suzerainty, Irredentism, Acquiescence, Expansionism, Unilateralism, Aggression, Intransigency, Bellicosity, War, Belligerent, Hostility, Belligerence

Rivalry, Rejection, Rage, Hate, Confrontation, Ire, Hostile, Xenophobia, Animus, Hatred, Animosity, Ill will, Belligerency, Aggression, Antagonism

Appeasement, Servility, Hegemony, Hegemon, Suzerainty, Irredentism, Acquiescence, Expansionism, Unilateralism, Aggression, Intransigency, War, Belligerent, Hostility, Belligerence

So, it is not a question of hostility.
It promotes neutralism, hostility toward colonialism and imperialism.
But violence breeds violence, and hostility breeds hostility.
For most of recorded history Assail has been a name of hostility and dread, a land of unrelenting hostility and warfare.
Better communication means less hostility; less hostility means less fighting, which translates into less stress for you and especially your children.
The therapist must realize that although he senses hostility on the part of the subject, this hostility I only secondarily directed at him.
Development of hostility to suggestions and growing hostility and distrust.
Keeping hostility in perspective: Coronary heart disease and the hostility scale on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
Similarly, people may expect hostility in others and induce this hostility by their own behavior.
Other researchers have found certain components of hostility, namely hostility suppression, defensive hostility, and cynical hostility, to be related to BP and hypertension.

United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of a belligerency.
The term guerilla, however, addresses belligerency within a very specific factual scenario and does not adequately capture transnational belligerents.
Few will deny that war existed and that a recognition of belligerency was in order.
Great Britain, just as Britain recognizes Confederate belligerency and declares its neutrality.
But one must also take cognizance of professional belligerency, together with viewpoints based on narrow perspectives.
Malvinas Islands, but that belligerency did not disrupt ongoing ACTP negotiations concerning an Antarctic minerals regime.
Iraq before the United States military becomes embroiled in belligerency with that nation.
Court held, was entirely inconsistent with the concept of belligerency under international law.
She could relate to belligerency, and they became fast friends.
Again, the ICC Statute did not contemplate transnational belligerency.