'Hostility' definitions:
Definition of 'hostility'
(from WordNet)
noun
A hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility" [syn: hostility, ill will]
noun
A state of deep-seated ill-will [syn: hostility, enmity, antagonism]
noun
The feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility" [syn: hostility, enmity, ill will]
noun
Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked [syn: aggression, hostility]
Definition of 'Hostility'
From: GCIDE
- Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, n.; pl. Hostilities. [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit['e].]
- 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. [1913 Webster]
- Hostility being thus suspended with France. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hostility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Kilkenny cats,
- 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