Hostility vs Polarization - 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 production, or the condition of polarity
(physics) the production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points
(chemistry, physics) the separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system
the grouping of opinions into two extremes
As nouns the difference between hostility and polarization
is that hostility is (uncountable) the state of being hostile while polarization is the production, or the condition of polarity.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.