antipathy

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I felt sorry not to be able to feel the same sympathy for this lady as I did for her husband; perhaps one of the reasons of my antipathy was the obvious and conspicuous way in which she made herself up, by means of which the poor woman probably tried to hide how much her beauty had suffered through the terrible strain of the past events.

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  1. noun A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance. See Synonyms at enmity.
  2. noun An object of aversion.

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  • At this time the antipathy was at its acme between the two races or populations. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • The latter is far different from what we commonly term antipathy or sympathy. —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 3
  • More than in most industries this transition has generated consumer antipathy, as Cree notes, as well as passionate debate among booksellers, publishers, and the public. —  The Chicago Blog
  • A fear that was neither physical nor moral, but more in the nature of the fear of women for mice, or the supposed fear of the late Lord Roberts for cats The solemn Church, the mercurial valet, the men with calves, belonged to a tribe that maybe had done Jones to death in some past life: either bored him to death or bludgeoned him, it did not matter, the antipathy was there, and it was powerful At the corner of Northumberland Avenue an idea came to him. —  The Man Who Lost Himself
  • He is naturally so throughout, by reason of that enmity that is in him against whatever is of God.... Your enemy, as I tell you, naturally, by that antipathy which is in him,--and also providentially, (that is, by special ordering of Providence.) —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
 

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  1. Latin antipathīa, from Greek antipatheia, from antipathēs, of opposite feelings : anti-, anti- + pathos, feeling; see pathos.

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  1. = French antipathic, from Greek ἀντιπάθεια, from ἀντιπαθής, of opposite feeling, from ἀντί, against, + πάθος, feeling, from παθεῖν, suffer, feel.
 

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