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Hostility vs Irreconcilableness - What's the difference?

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Hostility is a related term of irreconcilableness.


As nouns the difference between hostility and irreconcilableness

is that hostility is (uncountable) the state of being hostile while irreconcilableness is the quality of being irreconcilable; irreconcilability; incompatibility; incongruity.

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

    irreconcilableness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being irreconcilable; irreconcilability; incompatibility; incongruity.

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