What's the difference between animus and antagonism?

Animus


Definition:

  • (n.) Animating spirit; intention; temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He comes across as remarkably lacking in political bloodlust or even tribal animus.
  • (2) The satirical animus is what vibrates the molecules.
  • (3) The level of animus was the Miliband brothers on speed.
  • (4) But having said that, I have no animus in my heart, I have no hatred, no bitterness in my heart, for people that have a different view.” Rubio tried to make a similar argument by drawing a comparison to how divorce is viewed by the Catholic faith.
  • (5) Whatever the reasons, he has frequently exported personal animus into the foreign arena, too.
  • (6) The report continues: “The racial animus and stereotypes expressed by these supervisors suggest that they are unlikely to hold an officer accountable for discriminatory conduct or take any steps to discourage the development or perpetuation of racial stereotypes among officers.
  • (7) There appears to be a clear animus to the Christian faith and to Judeo-Christian values.
  • (8) Sue The thing is, it was only these two [Mary and Paul] who had that raw sexual animus.
  • (9) In this atmosphere of racial animus and class contempt, political dislocation and electoral opportunism, the space for the arguments we need to have about immigration, democracy and austerity simply did not exist.
  • (10) The sums are so paltry that the animus seems deliberate.
  • (11) But the county is not a destination stop for connoisseurs of political animus.
  • (12) An animus entered the relationship between the former friends and the bitter narrative was maintained until the last race of the season, when Hamilton secured his second world championship in Abu Dhabi.
  • (13) How anyone can read any of these passages and object to claims that Harris' worldview is grounded in deep anti-Muslim animus is staggering.
  • (14) Chinese people's long-standing animus toward their erstwhile colonial overlord is, of course, very real.
  • (15) But Bloom holds a special animus for Fox News and Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox .
  • (16) He continues: “Inside our borders, the nation of e pluribus unum [out of many, one] threatens to be fractured across ethnic lines by racial animus and divisive multiculturalism.
  • (17) That’s not a statement of animus or prejudice against anyone,” he said.
  • (18) It is an act of respect for the will of the American people, a respect that is every American leader’s first responsibility.” The animus between Clinton and Trump was clear throughout the debate – once again, they did not shake hands – and in some of the more heated exchanges , with Clinton accusing Trump of being a “a puppet” of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
  • (19) It seems to me that his animus derives much more from a profound antipathy towards the subject matter of this research than from a concern about the scientific methods used to investigate it.
  • (20) Principle and power struggles aside, there is also personal animus.

Antagonism


Definition:

  • (n.) Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
  • (2) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
  • (3) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
  • (4) Increases in extracellular calcium antagonized the negative inotropic effect.
  • (5) In K+-depolarized basilar arteries, ifenprodil competitively antagonized the response to Ca2+, and this was enhanced by pre-incubation in calcium hopantenate.
  • (6) During the postovulatory phase, endogenous progesterone and the production of metabolites antagonized this effect.
  • (7) An antagonism is unlikely when ciprofloxacin is combined with one of the beta-lactams studied or with tobramycin.
  • (8) Co-application of CGS 9896, a benzodiazepine receptor antagonist, did not antagonize the guanidino compound-induced inhibition of GABA responses.
  • (9) Aortic rings from the rabbit were similarly potently antagonized by the protein kinase C inhibitors, however, K(+)-induced contractions were also equally sensitive to these agents in both rat and rabbit tissues.
  • (10) The biphasic response to (-)-(S)-Bay K 8644 and (+)-(S)-202-791 suggests that the properties of Ca++ channel activation and antagonism may reside within a single 1,4-dihydropyridine molecule.
  • (11) We have investigated the bacterial antagonism exerted in oral secretion by alpha-hemolytic streptococci against S. aureus and S. epidermidis.
  • (12) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
  • (13) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
  • (14) The omission of glucose induced a marked increase in the efflux of [3H]GABA, which was antagonized by TTX (1 microM), but not by MK 801 (1 microM) or DNQX (100 microM).
  • (15) The hyperthermia in rabbits caused by the serotonergic stimulants cited above is also antagonized by pretreatment with MS.
  • (16) The neuroleptic agents haloperidol, fluphenazine, domperidone, sulpiride and tiapride also antagonized emesis induced by cisplatin but only a proportion of the animals were completely protected and diazepam and prednisolone only reduced the intensity of the response.
  • (17) These results suggest that formoterol modifies allergen-induced airway responses through functional antagonism rather than the inhibition of inflammatory cell infiltration.
  • (18) Depolarizations induced by acetyl-Arg6-septide, a NK1-receptor selective agonist, were also antagonized by spantide with a pA2 of 6.5.
  • (19) 5-Hydroxytryptamine contracted the musculature from all parts of the respiratory tract-an effect which was specifically antagonized by both methysergide and atropine.4.
  • (20) K showed little activity against LTC4 but could antagonize more selectively H- and ACh-mediated effects.