territoriality
English
/tɛɹɪtɔːɹɪˈalɪti/
noun
Definitions
- The fact or legal status of being a territory.
- (zoology) The pattern of behaviour in animals that defines and defends a territory.
- A pattern of human behaviour characterised by defence of a particular territory or area of interest.
Etymology
Suffix from English territorial.
Origin
English
territorial
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiterritorial English
- aterritorial English
- biterritorial English
- deterritorial English
- ethnoterritorial English
- exterritorial English
- extraterritorial English
- infraterritorial English
- interterritorial English
- intraterritorial English
- nonterritorial English
- panterritorial English
- subterritorial English
- territorial English
- territorialise English
- territorialism English
- territorialist English
- territorialistic English
- territorialization English
- territorialize English
- territorially English
- territory English
- triterritorial English
- uniterritorial English
- unterritorial English
- territorialis Latin
- territory
- territorial
- aterritorial
- exterritorial
- territorially
- unterritorial
- biterritorial
- deterritorial
- territorialist
- panterritorial
- territorialism
- nonterritorial
- territorialize
- subterritorial
- territorialise
- triterritorial
- uniterritorial
- antiterritorial
- extraterritorial
- intraterritorial
- interterritorial
- ethnoterritorial
- territorialistic
- infraterritorial
- territorialization