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Enmity vs Goodwill - What's the difference?

enmity | goodwill |

As nouns the difference between enmity and goodwill

is that enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition while goodwill is a favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.

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:

    goodwill

    English

    Noun

  • A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.
  • (accounting) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand.
  • (business) A concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien.
  • Antonyms

    * ill will

    See also

    * bona fides ----