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Odium

Odium Meaning & Definition
Odium Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Odium?

[n] hate coupled with disgust
[n] state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior

Synonyms | Synonyms for Odium: abhorrence | abomination | detestation | execration | loathing

Related Terms | Find terms related to Odium: abhorrence | abomination | Anglophobia | antipathy | anti-Semitism | aversion | bigotry | degradation | demotion | depluming | despitefulness | detestation | discredit | disesteem | dishonor | dislike | displuming | disrepute | execration | hate | hatred | ignobility | ignominiousness | ignominy | infamousness | infamy | ingloriousness | loathing | loss of honor | malevolence | malice | malignity | misandry | misanthropy | misogyny | obloquy | opprobrium | race hatred | racism | repugnance | Russophobia | shame | spite | spitefulness | stain | vials of hate | vials of wrath | xenophobia

See Also | disgrace | disgust | hate | hatred | ignominy | shame

Odium In Webster's Dictionary

\O"di*um\, n. [L., fr. odi I hate. Gr. {Annoy}, {Noisome}.] 1. Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him. 2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. She threw the odium of the fact on me. --Dryden. {Odium theologicum}[L.], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians. Syn: Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy. Usage: {Odium}, {Hatred}. We exercise hatred; we endure odium. The former has an active sense, the latter a passive one. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent. I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully. --Shak. You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. --Beaconsfield.

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