antipathy
2 synonyms and 1 antonym for antipathy, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A strong feeling of dislike towards a person, or less often a thing, sometimes felt for no clear reason.
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Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
PIE word *h₂énti Borrowed from Middle French antipathie (“deep dislike; object of dislike; incompatibility between things”) (modern French antipathie (“dislike, antipathy”)), and from its etymon Latin antipathīa (“counteraction; natural aversion, antipathy”), from Ancient Greek ἀντῐπάθειᾰ (antĭpátheiă, “suffering inste...
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