Hostility vs Malice - 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.
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 hostility and malice
is that hostility is the state of being hostile while malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.hostility
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- 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.
Synonyms
* (state of being hostile) antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred * (military action) war, fighting, combatAntonyms
* (state of being hostile) amity, friendliness * (military action) peacemalice
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(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
