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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Antipathy \An*tip"a*thy\, noun; pl. {Antipathies}. [L. antipathia, Gr. ?; ? against + ? to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See {Pathos}.]
1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. --Washington.
2. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. --I. Taylor.
Note: Antipathy is opposed to {sympathy}. It is followed by to, against, or between; also sometimes by for.
Syn: Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity; ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See {Dislike}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
antipathy
noun
1: a feeling of intense dislike [syn: {aversion}, {distaste}]
2: the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "antipathy": Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, allergy, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antithesis, averseness, aversion, avoidance, backlash, backwardness, bad blood, belligerence, bigotry, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision, competition, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, creeping flesh, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, cursoriness, despitefulness, detestation, disaccord, disagreement, discrepancy, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, disrelish, dissension, dissent, distaste, enmity, escape, eschewal, evasion, execration, foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent, grudgingness, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, inconsistency, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inimicalness, interference, intractableness, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, mutinousness, nausea, negativeness, nolition, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy, odium, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, peeve, perfunctoriness, perverseness, perversity, pet peeve, phobia, polarity, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, rancor, reaction, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, revolt, rivalry, showdown, shuddering, slowness, spite, spitefulness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, vials of hate, vials of wrath, vying, xenophobia
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ANTIPATHY, noun The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
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