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5 dictionary results for: Odium
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o·di·um       [oh-dee-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.intense hatred or dislike, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
2.the reproach, discredit, or opprobrium attaching to something hated or repugnant: He had to bear the odium of neglecting his family.
3.the state or quality of being hated.
[Origin: 1595–1605; < L: hatred, equiv. to od(isse) to hate + -ium -ium]

—Synonyms 1. detestation, abhorrence, antipathy. 2. obloquy.
—Antonyms 1. love.
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o·di·um       (ō'dē-əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The state or quality of being odious.
  2. Strong dislike, contempt, or aversion.
  3. A state of disgrace resulting from hateful or detestable conduct.


[Latin, hatred; see od- in Indo-European roots.]

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1602, "fact of being hated," from L. odium "ill-will, hatred, offense," related to odi "I hate" (infinitive odisse), from PIE base *od- "to hate" (cf. Armenian ateam "I hate," O.N. atall, O.E. atol "dire, horrid, loathsome"). Meaning "hatred, detestation" is from 1654. Often in an extended form, e.g. odium theologicum "hatred which is proverbially characteristic of theological disputes" (1673).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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noun
1. state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior 
2. hate coupled with disgust [syn: abhorrence] 

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Odium

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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