antipathy

[ an-tip-uh-thee ]

noun

, plural an·tip·a·thies.

1. a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.

   Synonyms: hatred, detestation, abhorrence, disgust

   Antonyms: attraction

2. an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling.
3. an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike.

antipathy

/ ænˈtɪpəθɪ /

noun

1. a feeling of intense aversion, dislike, or hostility
2. the object of such a feeling

Other Words From

• an·tipa·thist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of antipathy¹

1595–1605; < Latin antipathīa < Greek antipátheia. See anti-, -pathy

Word History and Origins

Origin of antipathy¹

C17: from Latin antipathia, from Greek antipatheia, from anti- + patheia feeling

Synonym Study

See aversion.

Example Sentences

He was motivated to act so swiftly not by his passion for Martinez’s candidacy but because of his antipathy toward Myers.

From Voice of San Diego

It may very well be that she was not well known enough to have generated that much antipathy but it’s a just beautiful to cast that as her failure.

From Voice of San Diego

Health officials in these places said they had not expected such anti-vaccine antipathy.

From Washington Post

Prince Philip misread the public antipathy to the royal family in the days after Diana’s death in a car crash in 1997.

From Washington Post

Polls have shown voters for decades have harbored antipathy toward Congress as a body, but support their own representative.

From Time

But what they do have in common, I think, is being told what to do: their antipathy to that.

From The Daily Beast

On the Democratic side of the ledger antipathy towards free trade is presumed and, by now, historic.

From The Daily Beast

A little while ago I asked a Texas conservative I know to unpack the antipathy aroused by Cruz.

From The Daily Beast

He cannot disguise his longstanding antipathy toward the British.

From The Daily Beast

The antipathy toward America in the Middle East continues even after the architects of the Iraq war have exited the stage.

From The Daily Beast

Houses innumerable had been built for it on deck, but the sagacious animal had a rooted antipathy to restraint.

From Project Gutenberg

He did not appear to notice the half-outstretched hand, and Dick felt as though there was an instinctive antipathy between them.

From Project Gutenberg

In the new Parliament that antipathy amounted almost to a mania.

From Project Gutenberg

From this you can conclude that if you are antipathetic to me, this antipathy proceeds fundamentally from myself.

From Project Gutenberg

National antipathy operated on some minds, religious antipathy on others.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• animosity
• animus
• antagonism
• aversion
• disgust
• dislike
• distaste
• enmity
• hatred
• hostility
• ill will
• loathing
• rancor