Antipathy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance. See Synonyms at enmity.
  • n. An object of aversion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  • n. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  • n. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Natural aversion; instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling; an aversion felt at the presence or thought of a particular object; distaste; disgust; repugnance.
  • n. A contrariety in the properties or affections of matter, as of oil and water.
  • n. An object of natural aversion or settled dislike.
  • n. Synonyms Hatred, Dislike, Antipathy, Disgust, Aversion, Reluctance, Repugnance. Hatred is the deepest and most permanent of these feelings; it is rarely used except of persons.
  • n. Dislike is the most general word, and depends upon the connection for its strength; it is opposed to liking or fondness.
  • n. Antipathy expresses most of constitutional feeling and least of volition: the turkey-cock has an antipathy to the color red; many people have an intense antipathy to snakes, rats, toads. In figurative use, antipathy is a dislike that seems constitutional toward persons, things, conduct, etc.; hence it involves a dislike for which sometimes no good reason can be given.
  • n. Antipathy is opposed primarily to sympathy, but often to mere liking.
  • n. Disgust is the loathing, first of physical taste, then of esthetic taste, then of spiritual taste or moral feeling.
  • n. Aversion is a fixed disposition to avoid something which displeases, disturbs, or annoys: as, quiet people have an aversion to noise. It is a dislike, settled and generally strong.
  • n. Reluctance and repugnance by derivation imply a natural struggle, as of hesitation or recoil; with reluctance it is simply the will holding back in dislike of some proposed act, while with repugnance it is a greater resistance or one accompanied with greater feeling, and generally in regard to an act, course, idea, etc., rarely to persons or things. See animosity.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
  • n. a feeling of intense dislike
  • Antonym
    sympathy   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    object    dislike   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    repugnance    disgust    ill will    opposition    distaste    enmity    dislike    contrariety    aversion    hatred   
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