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.

Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.

A bad mood; spitefulness.

* Alexander Pope

In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.

(obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.

* Shakespeare

A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.

(obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

* Alexander Pope

Bodies changed to various forms by spleen .

* Wordsworth

There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

* Shakespeare

Thy silly thought enforces my spleen .