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noun, plural -thies.
1.
a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.
2.
an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling.
3.
an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike.
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Antipathy
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Example Sentences
- Failing to endorse is not the same as expressing antipathy.
- Such male antipathy towards rivals may be a mammalian universal.
- He had an antipathy toward talking about his acting.
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antipathy
c.1600, from L. antipathia, from Gk. antipatheia, noun of state from antipathes "opposed in feeling, having opposite feeling," from anti- "against" + root of pathos "feeling" (see pathos). Related: Antipathetic (1630s); antipathic (1830, from Fr. antipathique).
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