Hostility vs Inconsistency - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state of being hostile.
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(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
The state of being inconsistent
(logic) an incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true
Hostility is a related term of inconsistency.
As nouns the difference between hostility and inconsistency
is that hostility is (uncountable) the state of being hostile while inconsistency is the state of being inconsistent.hostility
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Noun
- There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
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.}}
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.
