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Disliking vs Enmity - What's the difference?

disliking | enmity | Related terms |

Disliking is a related term of enmity.


As nouns the difference between disliking and enmity

is that disliking is dislike while enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

As a verb disliking

is .

disliking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • dislike
  • * (John Stuart Mill)
  • The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion.

    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.
  • *
  • 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

    * * * Notes: