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Antipathy vs Pathy - What's the difference?

antipathy | pathy |

As nouns the difference between antipathy and pathy

is that antipathy is contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste while pathy is (informal) a therapy.

antipathy

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(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. --Washington.
  • 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. --I. Taylor.

    • Usage notes

    * Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".

    Synonyms

    * hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition

    Antonyms

    * sympathy

    Related terms

    * antipathetic * antipathetical

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    pathy

    English

    Noun

    (pathies)
  • (informal) A therapy
  • *1849 Journal of Health
  • **So, no doubt, it may be applied to hydropathy, and to every other sort of pathy''', and the result will be that every sort of '''pathy cures not all persons, but many persons...