This document defines and discusses key terms around aggression and victims. It defines a victim as someone who is sacrificed, perishes in a disaster, succumbs to deception/oppression, or is forced to suffer impositions from others. An aggressor is defined as someone who attacks or makes an aggression. Aggressiveness is discussed as having retained meanings including behavior, emotional responses, and cognitive processes. It distinguishes between intrapsychic tendencies and observable aggressive behavior. It also differentiates between aggressive reactions, actions, and activities based on their complexity, duration, and relation to social and cultural models. Finally, it categorizes aggression along the dimensions of physical/verbal, direct/indirect, and human.

2.  VICTIM.s f. [from Latin victĭma -ae, term of dark
etymology].
 1. Being living, animal or man, sacred and sacrificed to
the divinity
 2:Who perishes in a disaster, in a calamity, following
serious events or situations; for example, victims of
terrorism, of drugs etc...
 3: Who succumbs to the other deception and arrogance,
suffering an oppression, a damage, or being persecuted
and oppressed; for example ,victims of racial hatred
 4. Who is forced to suffer the impositions of others, to be
dominated by others ;for example , victims of the
husband, of the wife ,of bullies

3. AGGRESSOR [from Latin aggressor -oris].
1. who attacks, who makes an aggression
2. which attacks or threatens another state.
AGGRESSIVINESS s.f. (from Latin adgredior )
1."to approach
2."assault",
3."to accuse",
4."to undertake“
5."to begin“
According to its etymological root, this noun has retained a
considerable wealth of meanings, for a positive or a negative
appearance. It includes very different phenomena, such as
behavior, emotional responses and cognitive processes.

4. 1.an intrapsychic push or predisposition of the
subject
2. aggressive, objective and visible behavior
This distinction is more explicitly underlined in the
English language, where the two phenomena are
indicated by two distinct terms, respectively
aggressiveness and aggression.

5. HOW CAN “AGGRESSIVE” BE DISTINGUISHED?
 1.Aggressive reaction, that is the organism's response
to simple external or internal stimuli that results in
an impulsive behavior directed against.
 2.Aggressive action, i.e. a behavior of greater
complexity that takes place over a longer period of
time;
 3.Aggressive activity, which is a form of persistent
and long-lasting activity, determined and assessed in
relation to socio-cultural behavioral models.

6.  1. physical / verbal (in the physical the harmful stimuli
consist of pain or damage, in the verbal the harmful stimuli
are rejection and threat;
 2. direct / indirect (in the former the aggressor is easily
identified by the victim, while in the latter no; this
possibility can occur if the victim isn’t present or if she isn’t
in the first person to be attacked.
 3. human (aggression can have various outcomes and can
be characterized by varying levels of intensity ranging from
the relatively harmless aggressive conduct of everyday life
to violence, to cruelty and extreme will to destruction).
 Edited by Finizio Lorenzo