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antipatia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • allergy noun A condition in which the immune system overreacts to a normally harmless substance, causing symptoms such as sneezing, rashes, or swelling.
  • antipathy noun Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
  • dislike verb To not like something or someone; to feel aversion toward.

Senses

antipatia is used for these senses in English:

  • allergy (informal, figuratively) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
  • antipathy (uncountable) Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
  • dislike An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.

allergy — full definition

  1. noun A condition in which the immune system overreacts to a normally harmless substance, causing symptoms such as sneezing, rashes, or swelling.
  2. noun A strong dislike or aversion, used figuratively.

antipathy — full definition

  1. noun Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
  2. noun Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.
  3. noun A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.
  4. noun A person or thing that has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards another person or thing; a hater.

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