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Dislike vs Contrariety - What's the difference?

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Dislike is a related term of contrariety.


As nouns the difference between dislike and contrariety

is that dislike is an attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion while contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.

As a verb dislike

is (obsolete|transitive) to displease; to offend (in third-person only).

dislike

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.

    • Verb

    (dislik)
  • (obsolete) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.)
  • *, II.12:
    • customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike .
  • To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Antonyms

    * like

    See also

    * abhor * despise * detest * hate * loathe

    contrariety

    English

    Noun

    (contrarieties)
  • Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?
  • * 1759 , (Laurence Sterne), The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.61:
  • *:This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
  • *:The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, thee was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
  • *2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep.:
  • *:At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.