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WordNet
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n. a feeling of intense dislike [syn: aversion , distaste ] the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antipathy \An*tip"a*thy\, n.; pl. Antipathies . [L. antipathia, Gr. ?; ? against + ? to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See Pathos .] Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin antipathia , from Greek antipatheia , noun of state from antipathes "opposed in feeling, having opposite feeling; in return for suffering; felt mutually," from anti- "against" (see anti- ) + root of pathos "feeling" (see pathos ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In part, the present high level of antipathy toward foreign travel is easy to explain. ▪ Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy , between birds and snakes. ▪ Some are longtime adversaries ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Antipathy is a voluntary or involuntary dislike for something or somebody, the opposite of sympathy . While antipathy may be induced by experience, it sometimes exists without a rational cause-and-effect explanation being present to the individuals involved. ...
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Edition: 11 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of A Mortal Antipathy, by O.
When a young lady screams at the sight of a spider, we accept her explanation that she has a natural antipathy to the creature.
But it was a very curious thing that this antipathy should be alleged as the reason for his singular mode of life.
No other creature would be so likely to trouble a person who had an antipathy to it.
But what if this so-called antipathy were only a fear, a terror, which borrowed the less unmanly name?
A much more common antipathy is that which is entertained with regard to cats.
But suppose Maurice Kirkwood to be the subject of this antipathy in its extremest degree, it would in no manner account for the isolation to which he had condemned himself.
A rabbit ran by us, and I watched to see if he showed any sign of that antipathy we have heard so much of, but he seemed to be pleased watching the creature.
Stranger and far more awkward than this is the case mentioned in an ancient collection, where the subject of the antipathy fainted at the sight of any object of a red color.
Butts, namely, that, as a violent emotion caused by a sudden shock can kill or craze a human being, there is no perversion of the faculties, no prejudice, no change of taste or temper, no eccentricity, no antipathy, which such a cause may not rationally account for.
But how could any conceivable antipathy be so comprehensive as to keep a young man aloof from all the world, and make a hermit of him?
The story is that be has a queer antipathy to something or to somebody, nobody knows what or whom.
Privately and in a very still way, she was occupying herself with the problem of the young stranger, the subject of some delusion, or disease, or obliquity of unknown nature, to which the vague name of antipathy had been attached.
But if you can get him to try his skill upon this interesting personage and his antipathy, so much the better.
The young man told him the various antipathy stories, about the evil-eye hypothesis, about his horse-taming exploits, his rescuing the student whose boat was overturned, and every occurrence he could recall which would help out the effect of his narrative.