 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hostility
noun
1: a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not
conceal his hostility" [syn: {ill will}]
2: a state of deep-seated ill-will [syn: {enmity}, {antagonism}]
3: the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain
his hostility" [syn: {enmity}, {ill will}]
4: violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked [syn:
{aggression}]
5: acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities" [syn: {belligerency}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Hostilities}. [L. hostilitas:
cf. F. hostilit['e].]
1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy;
unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
--Hayward.
2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the
plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See
{hostilities}
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes
an enemy where he might have a friend. --Crabb.
Syn: Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression;
contention; warfare.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "hostility":
Kilkenny cats, abhorrence, abomination, action, aggression,
aggressiveness, allergy, altercation, animosity, animus,
antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, argument,
aversion, bad blood, bad feeling, bellicism, bellicosity,
belligerence, belligerency, bickering, bloodshed, cat-and-dog life,
chauvinism, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision, combat,
combativeness, competition, conflict, confrontation, confrontment,
contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, contradiction,
contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety,
contrariness, contrast, controversy, counterposition,
creeping flesh, cross-purposes, cut and thrust, debate,
despitefulness, disaccord, disaffinity, disagreement, discrepancy,
disgust, disputation, dispute, dissension, enmity, ferocity,
fierceness, fight, fighting, fractiousness, friction,
hard feelings, hardheartedness, hate, hatred, horror, hostilities,
ill will, immediate dislike, inconsistency, inimicalness, jingoism,
litigation, loathing, logomachy, malevolence, malice, malignity,
martialism, militancy, militarism, mortal horror, nausea,
negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, opposing, oppositeness,
opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, paper war,
personality conflict, perverseness, perversity, polar opposition,
polarity, polarization, polemic, posing against, pugnaciousness,
pugnacity, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rancor,
recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, repulsion, rivalry,
saber rattling, scrapping, showdown, shuddering, spite,
spitefulness, squabbling, state of war, strife, struggle,
truculence, uncooperativeness, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness,
vying, war, war of words, warfare, warmongering, warpath, words,
wrangling
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
HOSTILITY, noun A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the
earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and
passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female
friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.
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