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Enmity vs Animosity - What's the difference?

enmity | animosity |

Animosity is a synonym of enmity.



As nouns the difference between enmity and animosity

is that enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition while animosity is violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

enmity

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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:

    animosity

    English

    Noun

    (animosities)
  • Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

    • Synonyms

    * enmity * hatred * opposition * acrimony

    Antonyms

    * peace

    Related terms

    * animose

    References

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