Enmity vs Malice - What's the difference?
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The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
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A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
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Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
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As nouns the difference between enmity and malice
is that enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition while malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.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 * ** enmityNoun
(enmities)- 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.
- 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, animusAntonyms
* amityReferences
* * * Notes:malice
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Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.