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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Natural aversion; instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling; an aversion felt at the presence or thought of a particular object; distaste; disgust; repugnance.
  2. n. A contrariety in the properties or affections of matter, as of oil and water.
  3. n. An object of natural aversion or settled dislike.
  4. 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.
  5. n. Dislike is the most general word, and depends upon the connection for its strength; it is opposed to liking or fondness.
  6. 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.
  7. n. Antipathy is opposed primarily to sympathy, but often to mere liking.
  8. n. Disgust is the loathing, first of physical taste, then of esthetic taste, then of spiritual taste or moral feeling.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  2. n. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  2. n. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
  2. n. a feeling of intense dislike

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἀντιπάθεια (antipatheia), noun of state from ἀντιπαθής (antipathes, "opposed in feeling"), from ἀντί (anti-, "against") + root of πάθος (pathos, "feeling"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin antipathīa, from Greek antipatheia, from antipathēs, of opposite feelings : anti-, anti- + pathos, feeling; see pathos. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (12)

Words with the same meaning

  1. repugnance
  2. disgust
  1. ill will
  2. opposition
  1. distaste
  2. enmity
  1. dislike
  2. contrariety
  1. aversion
  2. hatred
  1. incompatibility
  2. abhorrence

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. sympathy

hypernyms (2)

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  1. object
  1. dislike

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. aversion
  2. animosity
  3. repugnance
  1. antagonism
  2. resentment
  3. abhorrence
  1. repulsion
  2. prejudice
  3. mistrust
  1. uneasiness
  2. hate
  3. discontent
  1. rivalry
  2. shyness
  3. propensity
  1. alienation
  2. disapproval
  3. malice

reverse dictionary (29)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. antipathy
  2. aversion
  3. dislike
  4. hatred
  5. averse
  1. disgust
  2. reluctance
  3. repugnance
  4. repugnant
  5. lithography
  1. negrophobe
  2. Negrophobia
  3. sickener
  4. allergy
  5. antipathetic
  1. antipathic
  2. antipathist
  3. antipathize
  4. dispathy
  5. disrelish
  1. idiosyncrasy
  2. detest
  3. antagonistic
  4. antipathetical
  5. counterrevolutionary
  1. hate
  2. opposition
  3. animosity
  4. anti

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  • kingparton The antipathy to "style" is always an antipathy to a given style. There are no style-less works of art, only works of art belonging to different, more or less complex stylistic traditions and conventions.

    Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation" Nov 18, 2011

  • she In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think—" (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) "—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?"

    The word Alice was looking for was antipode. Jul 18, 2008

  • brtom "Ye matron censors of this childish age,
    Whose peering eye and wrinkled front declare
    A fixed antipathy to young and fair ..."
    Sheridan, School for Scandal Jan 2, 2008

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