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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
antagonism
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
class
▪ Third, his anxieties about homosexuality were conjoined with class antagonism.
▪ War is also understood to be a product of class society and of class antagonisms.
▪ The barely submerged class antagonism much alluded to in the local humour is both true and false.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hines made no effort to conceal his antagonism towards his supervisor.
▪ Mitchell sees no clear way to end the antagonism between the two groups.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brian and I weren't entirely sure how to deal with the Yanks' antagonisms.
▪ But behind the expressed reasons for antagonism or inertia in the face of proposals for harmonization lies a more fundamental consideration.
▪ Soon after the incident of the priest, local antagonism diminished.
▪ The Church and democracy had fought a war for temporal power, the Church had lost, and the antagonism lingered.
▪ These are new antagonisms which emerge as social conflict is diffused to more social relations.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antagonism

Antagonism \An*tag"o*nism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to struggle against; ? against + ? to contend or struggle, ? contest: cf. F. antagonisme. See Agony.] Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

Note: We speak of antagonism between two things, to or against a thing, and sometimes with a thing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
antagonism

1797, from French antagonisme or directly from late Greek antagonisma, noun of action from antagonizesthai "to struggle against" (see antagonist).

Wiktionary
antagonism

n. A strong natural dislike or hatred; antipathy.

WordNet
antagonism
  1. n. a state of deep-seated ill-will [syn: hostility, enmity]

  2. the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors; "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"

  3. an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility

  4. (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

Wikipedia
Antagonism

Antagonism is hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness.

Additionally, it may refer to:

  • The characteristic of the Antagonist, in literature
  • Antagonism (chemistry), where the involvement of multiple agents reduces their overall effect
  • Antagonism (pharmacology), when a substance binds to the same site an antagonist would bind to without causing activation of the receptor
  • Antagonism (philosophy), a principle, force or factor that is an active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness
  • Antagonism (phytopathology), the action of any microbes that suppresses the activity of a plant pathogen
  • Reflexive antagonism, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other
Antagonism (phytopathology)

In phytopathology, antagonism refers to the action of any organism that suppress or interfere the normal growth and activity of a plant pathogen, such as the main parts of bacteria or fungi.

These organisms can be used for pest control and are referred to as ``Biological Control Agents´´. They may be predators, parasites, parasitoides, or pathogens that attack harmful insect, weed or plant disease or any other organism in its vicinity . the inhibitory substance is highly specific in its action affecting only a specific species. many soil microorganisms are antagonistic .they secrete a potent enzyme which destroys other cells by digesting their cell walls and degrade the cellular material as well as d released protoplasmic material serves as a nutrient for the inhibitor organism for example Aspergillus has an antagonistic effect on Penicillium and Cladosporium . Trichoderma has an effect on actinomycetes. Pseudomanas show antagonism on Cladosporium.

Antagonism (chemistry)

In chemistry, antagonism is a phenomenon wherein two or more agents in combination have an overall effect that is less than the sum of their individual effects.

The word is most commonly used in this context in biochemistry and toxicology: interference in the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure. For instance, a receptor antagonist is an agent that reduces the response that a ligand produces when the receptor antagonist binds to a receptor on a cell. An example of this is the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. The opposite of antagonism is synergy. It is a negative type of synergism.

Experiments with different combinations show that binary mixtures of phenolics can lead to either a synergetic antioxidant effect or to an antagonistic effect.

Usage examples of "antagonism".

Holding these pronounced views, aggressively loyal in every thought and action, General Pope was naturally in antagonism with the policy of the President.

The misery they inflicted was not the motive of their schemes, but an unpleasant incident, and usually the sufferers were men of other races and religions, for whom sympathy had been dulled by long antagonism.

There is need of an Irenicum, for the fact is painfully notorious that there is an antagonism between scientific men as a class, and religious men as a class.

I slept a little and woke to feelings of unease, something like foreboding, remembering, as I still lay reclined on my couch, the marks of division so evident at the majlis that morning, the antagonisms that stirred among us.

Just as capital moves forward to restructure production and employ new technologies only as a response to the organized threat of worker antagonism, so too European capital would not relinquish slave production until the organized slaves posed a threat to their power and made that system of production untenable.

Stoic rationalism, in its logical development, is menaced wherever we meet the perception that the course of the world must in some way be helped, and wherever the contrast between reason and sensuousness, that the old Stoa had confused, is clearly felt to be an unendurable state of antagonism that man cannot remove by his own unaided efforts.

Antagonism between clones and summerlings was pretty intense in Long Valley.

The antagonism over the open assistance to fugitives and the celebrity status acquired by such former slaves as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and the Crafts were crucial in fanning the flames of hatred and mistrust between slave and free regions, making any compromise over slavery difficult if not impossible.

There is not an ultraist at the North, whom, if he had their confidence, and were not put in antagonism to him, the Southerners could not make ashamed, and put to silence, by telling him evil things about slavery, which he had never contemplated, and by admitting most fully things which he would expect them to deny.

Upon this ugly race antagonism it is not necessary to enlarge here in discussing the problem of education, and I will leave it with the single observation that I have heard intelligent negroes, who were honestly at work, accumulating property and disposed to postpone active politics to a more convenient season, say that they had nothing to fear from the intelligent white population, but only from the envy of the ignorant.

In fact, Anarchism alone makes non-authoritarian organization of common interests possible, since it abolishes the existing antagonism between individuals and classes.

However, the Zionist antagonism against the assimilationist socialist Jews made them the local and international apologists for the Christian Socials.

Of Barish-Windlow and Himaggery, circling one another in mixed antagonism and love, Himaggery full of protest and fury at the fate of the hundred thousand in the ice caverns, Windlow equally distraught, Barish trying to fight them on two fronts, justifying his experiment on the grounds of human progress.

Unfortunately the antagonism between physostigmine and atropine is not perfect, and Sir Thomas Fraser has shown that in such cases there comes a time when, if the action of the two drugs be summated, death results sooner than from either alone.

Fabre thus agrees with Pasteur, who in the world of the infinitely little shows us the same antagonisms, the same vital competition, the same eternal movement of flux and reflux, the same whirlpool of life, which is extinguished only to reappear: tending always towards an equilibrium which is incessantly destroyed.