antipathy

3 definitions found

antipathy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Antipathy \An*tip"a*thy\, n.; pl. Antipathies. [L. antipathia,
     Gr. ?; 'anti` against + ? to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See
     Pathos.]
     1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or
        dislike; repugnance; distaste.
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              Inveterate antipathies against particular nations,
              and passionate attachments to others, are to be
              avoided.                              --Washington.
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     2. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of
        qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
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              A habit is generated of thinking that a natural
              antipathy exists between hope and reason. --I.
                                                    Taylor.
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     Note: Antipathy is opposed to sympathy. It is followed by
           to, against, or between; also sometimes by for.
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     Syn: Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity;
          ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See
          Dislike.
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antipathy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  antipathy
      n 1: a feeling of intense dislike [syn: antipathy, aversion,
           distaste]
      2: the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be
         avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"

antipathy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "antipathy":
     Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, allergy,
     anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antithesis,
     averseness, aversion, avoidance, backlash, backwardness, bad blood,
     belligerence, bigotry, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision,
     competition, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contention,
     contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition,
     contrariety, contrariness, contrast, counteraction,
     counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, creeping flesh,
     cross-purposes, crotchetiness, cursoriness, despitefulness,
     detestation, disaccord, disagreement, discrepancy, disgust,
     disinclination, dislike, disobedience, disrelish, dissension,
     dissent, distaste, enmity, escape, eschewal, evasion, execration,
     foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent,
     grudgingness, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, inconsistency,
     indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inimicalness,
     interference, intractableness, kick, lack of enthusiasm,
     lack of zeal, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry,
     misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, mutinousness, nausea,
     negativeness, nolition, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy,
     odium, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy,
     peeve, perfunctoriness, perverseness, perversity, pet peeve,
     phobia, polarity, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, rancor,
     reaction, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness,
     refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repellency,
     repercussion, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, revolt, rivalry,
     showdown, shuddering, slowness, spite, spitefulness, stubbornness,
     sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream,
     uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, vials of hate,
     vials of wrath, vying, xenophobia