Rancor vs Hostility - What's the difference?
rancor | hostility |
The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
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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.
As nouns the difference between rancor and hostility
is that rancor is the deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred while hostility is (uncountable) the state of being hostile.rancor
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Alternative forms
* rancour (Commonwealth)Noun
(-)- I could almost see the rancor in his eyes when he challenged me to a fight.
Derived terms
* rancorous * rancorouslyReferences
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.