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Hostility vs Enmity - What's the difference?

hostility | enmity |

Enmity is a synonym of hostility.



As nouns the difference between hostility and enmity

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

hostility

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
  • *, II.12:
    • There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Everton 0-2 Liverpool , passage=But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.}}
  • * 2013 September 28, (Kenan Malik), " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
    • The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.
  • (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being hostile) antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred * (military action) war, fighting, combat

    Antonyms

    * (state of being hostile) amity, friendliness * (military action) peace

    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: