Repulsion vs Enmity - What's the difference?
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The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
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The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
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A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
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Repulsion is a related term of enmity.
As nouns the difference between repulsion and enmity
is that repulsion is repulsion (all senses) while enmity is the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.repulsion
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
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Alternative forms
: * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte * ** enemyte ** enemytee ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** enymyte * ** enemitie ** enemyte ** enemytee ** enimitie ** enimity ** ennemite ** ennemyte ** ennimitie ** inimity : * ** enmite ** enmitye ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmity ** enmyte ** enmytee * ** enmityNoun
(enmities)- Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.
- I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
