ENMITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The feeling of a hostile person

Example:

he could no longer contain his hostility

Synonyms:

enmity; hostility; ill will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("enmity" is a kind of...):

hate; hatred (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enmity"):

animosity; animus; bad blood (a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility)

class feeling (feelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another)

antagonism (an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility)

aggression; aggressiveness (a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack)

belligerence; belligerency (hostile or warlike attitude or nature)

bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment (a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will)

Derivation:

inimical (not friendly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state of deep-seated ill-will

Synonyms:

antagonism; enmity; hostility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("enmity" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enmity"):

latent hostility; tension (feelings of hostility that are not manifest)

state of war; war (a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply)

cold war (a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare)

suspicion (the state of being suspected)

Instance hyponyms:

Cold War (a state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States)