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Conflict vs Enmity - What's the difference?

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Conflict is a related term of enmity.


As nouns the difference between conflict and enmity

is that conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals while enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

As a verb conflict

is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

conflict

Noun

(en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

    References

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    enmity

    English

    Alternative forms

    : * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** enymyte * ** enemitie ** enemyte ** enemytee ** enimitie ** enimity ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** ennimitie ** inimity : * ** enmite ** enmitye ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmity ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmity

    Noun

    (enmities)
  • The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
  • * 2005 , .
  • Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.
  • A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
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  • I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

    Quotations

    * *: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

    Synonyms

    * enemyship, hostility, enemyhood, antagonism, animosity, rancor, antipathy, animus

    Antonyms

    * amity

    References

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