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noun

Antipathy n. (pl. antipathies)

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. "Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided."

Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy. "A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason." Note: Antipathy is opposed to sympathy. It is followed by to, against, or between; also sometimes by for.

Synonyms: Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity; ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See Dislike.

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"Antipathy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Antipathy?—I hate him! Nothing but your incredible kindness of heart would let him come near you. For you have no ...

— The Lonely Way--Intermezzo--Countess Mizzie - Three Plays • Arthur Schnitzler

... all who may read these lines, and who may feel that the pores of their skin are getting torpid and sluggish, owing to an inherited antipathy toward physical exertion, and who feel that they would rather work up their perspiration into woe and shed it in the shape of common red-eyed weep, will keep themselves to this poor boon. People have ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... her attention, and lifted her drooping lids. She looked at it a moment before she would touch it. Then she took hold of it by one corner and slid it off from the rest. One would have said she was afraid of it, or had some undefined antipathy which made it hateful to her. Such odd fancies are common enough in young persons in her nervous state. Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... idea—the success of the cause; and but one ambition—that it should be said of him that it was he, Santa Cruz, who put Don Carlos on the throne of his ancestors. The globe for him was bounded by the Pyrenees and the sea; he had but one antipathy after the heretics (all who did not worship God as he did) and the Liberals, and that was Lizarraga. I considered it a mistake that Lizarraga was not the Cura of Hernialde, and Santa Cruz the Commandant-General ...

— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea

... the evening, desolated by the ugly responsibility that had been thrust upon him, Braden put aside his scruples, his antipathy, and sent word to Anne that he would like to discuss the new situation with her. She had not appeared for dinner, which was a doleful affair; she did not even favour him with an apology for not coming down. Distasteful as the interview promised to be for him, he realised ...

— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon

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