About The Word Hostility

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Hostility

Hostility Meaning & Definition
Hostility Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hostility?

[n] acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities"
[n] violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
[n] a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"
[n] the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"
[n] a state of deep-seated ill-will

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hostility: aggression | antagonism | belligerency | enmity | enmity | ill will | ill will

Related Terms | Find terms related to Hostility: abhorrence | abomination | action | aggression | aggressiveness | allergy | altercation | animosity | animus | antagonism | anteposition | antipathy | antithesis | argument | aversion | bad blood | bad feeling | bellicism | bellicosity | belligerence | belligerency | bickering | bloodshed | cat-and-dog life | chauvinism | clash | clashing | cold sweat | collision | combat | combativeness | competition | conflict | confrontation | confrontment | contention | contentiousness | contest | contestation | contradiction | contradistinction | contraindication | contraposition | contrariety | contrariness | contrast | controversy | counterposition | creeping flesh | cross-purposes | cut and thrust | debate | despitefulness | disaccord | disaffinity | disagreement | discrepancy | disgust | disputation | dispute | dissension | enmity | ferocity | fierceness | fight | fighting | fractiousness | friction | hard feelings | hardheartedness | hate | hatred | horror | hostilities | ill will | immediate dislike | inconsistency | inimicalness | jingoism | Kilkenny cats | litigation | loathing | logomachy | malevolence | malice | malignity | martialism | militancy | militarism | mortal horror | nausea | negativeness | noncooperation | obstinacy | opposing | oppositeness | opposition | opposure | oppugnance | oppugnancy | paper war | personality conflict | perverseness | perversity | polar opposition | polarity | polarization | polemic | posing against | pugnaciousness | pugnacity | quarrel | quarreling | quarrelsomeness | rancor | recalcitrance | refractoriness | repugnance | repulsion | rivalry | saber rattling | scrapping | showdown | shuddering | spite | spitefulness | squabbling | state of war | strife | struggle | truculence | uncooperativeness | unfriendliness | unpeacefulness | vying | war | war of words | warfare | warmongering | warpath | words | wrangling

See Also | action | aggression | aggressiveness | animosity | animus | antagonism | armed combat | bad blood | belligerence | belligerency | bitterness | class feeling | combat | force | gall | hate | hatred | latent hostility | meat grinder | pillage | pillaging | plundering | rancor | rancour | resentment | state | state of war | suspicion | tension | unfriendliness | violence | virulence | virulency | war

Hostility In Webster's Dictionary

\Hos*til"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Hostilities}. [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit['e].] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. --Hayward. 2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. --Atterbury. He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. --Crabb. Syn: Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare.

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