Detestation vs Animosity - What's the difference?
detestation | animosity | Related terms |
Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
Something detested.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
Detestation is a related term of animosity.
As nouns the difference between detestation and animosity
is that detestation is hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence while animosity is violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.detestation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”}}