animosity
/ˌanɪˈmɒsɪti
/noun (plural animosities) [mass noun]
Strong hostility: he no longer felt any animosity towards her...
- There is strong animosity between the two groups and each has its own culture and traditions.
- Wilful misinterpretation of the law has bred animosity and resentment towards disabled people.
- Yet in spite of this long animosity, Confucianism and Buddhism unite in refusing to take positive law very seriously.
Synonyms
antipathy, hostility, friction, antagonism, enmity, animus, opposition, aversion, acrimony, bitterness, rancour, resentment, dislike, ill feeling, bad feeling, ill will, bad blood, hatred, hate, loathing, detestation, abhorrence, odium;
malice, spite, spitefulness, venom, malevolence, malignity;
grudges, grievances
archaic disrelish
Origin
Late Middle English (originally in the sense 'spirit, courage'): from Old French animosite or late Latin animositas, from animosus 'spirited', from Latin animus 'spirit, mind'. The current sense dates from the early 17th century.
Rhymes
- cut lunch
- cut no ice
- cut-off
- cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- cut one's losses
- cut one's own throat
- cut one's teeth
- cut (or pare) something to the bone
- cut (or tear) something to ribbons
- cut out
- cutover
- cut-price
- cutpurse
- cut-rate
- cutscene
- cut someone dead
- cut someone down to size
- cut someone in
- cut someone off
- cut someone off (or down) in their prime
- cut someone out
- cut someone some slack
- cut someone/thing loose (or free)
- cut someone/thing short
- cut someone to pieces