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Enmity vs Vindictiveness - What's the difference?

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Enmity is a related term of vindictiveness.


As nouns the difference between enmity and vindictiveness

is that enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition while vindictiveness is the condition of being vindictive.

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:

    vindictiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The condition of being vindictive
  • A malevolent desire for revenge