antipathy
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8.4
- noun
- /ænˈtɪpəθi/
:
objeto de aversión
- Although she was a devout woman, she had only the greatest antipathy for her youngest child.
But they have a particular antipathy towards black men who don't carry the flag in the same way that black women do.
- But they have a particular antipathy towards black men who don't carry the flag in the same way that black women do.
Examples
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His deep-seated antipathy towards the proposed law was voiced at the town hall meeting.
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She has an antipathy to everything you stand for.
Fiction book (1990) -
He feels antipathy towards the androids, or at least he feels perhaps nothing towards them.
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By 1977, intense U.S. pressure to involve Jordan in the Camp David negotiations was clearly aimed at satisfying Israel's antipathy toward the P.L.O.
Academic text (1993) -
Ethnic and cultural antipathies have proven more enduring than fealty to world Marxist-Leninism.
Academic text (1992) -
In all of the Kurdish revolts of the twentieth century, for example, significant numbers of Kurds have supported the government because of tribal antipathies for those rebelling.
Academic text (2004) -
Her antipathy for dishonest people makes it difficult for her to trust anyone.
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The antipathy between the two rival fans became evident during the match.
Synonyms
9
9.5
A person or thing people strongly dislike
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9.9
A person or thing that people strongly dislike and avoid
Antonyms
How Disliked
Surface Forms
Morphology
antipathy = pathy (opaque) = anti + pathy
The word contains the prefix anti- plus a bound classical element meaning feeling or suffering, but the sense 'object of dislike' is not compositionally predictable for an average learner.
Etymology
Antipathy comes from the Greek parts anti 'against' and pathos 'feeling', like sympathy but the opposite. So an 'antipathy' can be a person or thing you feel strongly 'against' and want to avoid.