Antipathy Definition

ăn-tĭpə-thē
antipathies
noun
antipathies
Extreme dislike; aversion or repugnance.
American Heritage
Strong or deep-rooted dislike; aversion.
Webster's New World
A feeling of aversion.
Longstanding antipathies between two nations.
American Heritage
The object of such dislike.
Webster's New World
An opposition in character, nature, tendency, etc.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Antipathy

Noun

Singular:
antipathy
Plural:
antipathies

Origin of Antipathy

  • From Ancient Greek ἀντιπάθεια (antipatheia), noun of state from ἀντιπαθής (antipathes, “opposed in feeling”), from ἀντί (anti-, “against”) + root of πάθος (pathos, “feeling”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin antipathīa from Greek antipatheia from antipathēs of opposite feelings anti- anti- pathos feeling pathos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Antipathy Sentence Examples

  • The traditional antipathy of the rhinoceros to the elephant seems to be mythical.

  • Multan had previously fallen; and the Afghan horse under Dost Mahommed, who had forgotten their hereditary antipathy to the Sikhs in their greater hatred of the British name, were chased back with ignominy to their native hills.

  • They waited; but the closer contact of a prolonged stay only brought into fuller play the essential antipathy of the Greek and the Latin.

  • The natural antipathy between the two sections of the race, though less evident than in former times, is far from extinct.

  • The mention of Burr leads us to the fatal end of another great political antipathy of Hamilton's life.

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YHYTHY

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