What's the difference between antipathy and enmity?

Antipathy


Definition:

  • (n.) Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  • (n.) Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
  • (2) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
  • (3) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
  • (4) Home-state antipathy to Christie was crystallized in an blistering editorial published by the Newark Star-Ledger when Christie launched his campaign in June.
  • (5) Obama said then: They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
  • (6) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
  • (7) Perhaps the only thing Katie does get to take home is her antipathy to laughter.
  • (8) In surveying racist attitudes in Australia, Kevin Dunn from the University of Western Sydney found this contributes to a strong antipathy towards Muslims.
  • (9) Some of this antipathy about Europe in general really relates of course to the European court of human rights, rather than the EU.
  • (10) What is less well known is that Obama’s personal antipathy towards the prime minister co-exists with a genuine commitment to the welfare and security of the Jewish state.
  • (11) There is nothing subtle about Trump’s antipathy to science.
  • (12) Sinn Féin's president, Gerry Adams , says he understands the "antipathy" the family of IRA murder victim Jean McConville feel towards republicans – and has revealed he has made a formal complaint to the police about aspects of his detention in connection with the killing.
  • (13) It is our antipathy towards migrants that kills in the Mediterranean Read more “When they leave, they are told to stay where they’re seated,” said the fisherman.
  • (14) Such conditions in the mother relate to the daughters' reports of adverse family experience involving maternal antipathy and neglect and physical and sexual abuse, most usually at the hands of a father or stepfather.
  • (15) But Profumo was the focus of antipathy for old sweats such as Kerby and the Labour MP Lieutenant-Colonel George Wigg.
  • (16) One former cabinet minister I spoke to agreed with the widespread view that Charles’s relationship with Diana was the biggest factor in public antipathy towards him.
  • (17) Apple's growing antipathy towards Google - initially over Android, then in its competition for mobile advertising attention, and then for pretty much everything, suggests that the company may be looking for other providers.
  • (18) In Part 2 Bentham speculates on its causes and alleges that the real reason such behavior is so severely punished is an irrational "antipathy" to pleasure generally and to sexual pleasure in particular.
  • (19) I am surprised that his close association with the Conservative party failed to make him aware of the fact that she nursed a deeply rooted antipathy towards trade unions generally and is on record as supporting the privatisation of the railways principally because this would significantly weaken both the NUM and Aslef, two of the largest and most powerful unions in the country.
  • (20) Though complicated by other factors, Rubio’s defeat in all of Florida’s 67 counties, except his home town of Miami, is partly confirmation of what opinion polls have been suggesting for some time: that antipathy toward Havana’s communist government among Cuban Americans in the state is no longer a decisive electoral issue, as it once was.

Enmity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
  • (n.) A state of opposition; hostility.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
  • (2) Their mutual enmity toward the West would in the end triumph over any scruples of that nature, as we see graphically in Iraq today.
  • (3) When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.” Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s No.1 Enemy is published on 5 February by Transworld Out in the cold: Vladimir Putin’s biggest enemies 1 Barack Obama Putin’s enmity towards Obama is ideological rather than personal.
  • (4) It’s an incredibly scary feeling when you’re exposed to anyone’s raw feelings and enmity.
  • (5) This travel ban will instigate enmity and grudge between the two nations,” he said.
  • (6) Cameron's move promptly earned him the enmity of the centre-right powerbrokers in the EU, notably Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
  • (7) The sectarian enmity that festered during the war years has been reignited by the war in Syria, which pitches a Sunni majority against an Alawite minority with links to Shia Islam .
  • (8) The ayatollah offered his gift as a "symbolic action to serve as a reminder of the importance of valuing human beings, of peaceful coexistence, of cooperation and mutual support, and avoidance of hatred, enmity and blind religious prejudice".
  • (9) His dalliance during the 1990s with Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir has left a lasting enmity with many leaders in the Dinka community, South Sudan's largest tribe, from which Kiir hails.
  • (10) The Polish PM added: “Some leaders in Europe believe that everything and anything can be bought with money and I said that that is not our opinion last night.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tusk to Polish government: ‘Be careful of the bridges you burn’ Szydło, whose rightwing Eurosceptic Law and Justice party has nursed a long and bitter enmity with Tusk , nominated a rival candidate for European council president but did not receive any support from the rest of the EU.
  • (11) The normalisation of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba ends decades of enmity that reached their nadir of at the height of the cold war.
  • (12) In her latest book, Family Breakdown: Helping Children to Hang on to Both Parents , to be published in June, she advocates two enmity-free households, working together, to make the best of a bad job for children when their parents opt to go their separate ways.
  • (13) He shared his mentor's foreign policy goals and his enmity of Islamists.
  • (14) For years on both sides of the ocean, groups of hardliners have tried to present to their people unrealistic and fearful images of various nations and cultures in order to turn their differences into disagreements, their disagreements into enmities and their enmities into fears,” he said in a statement in the New York Times .
  • (15) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
  • (16) I entered Germany with a feeling of enmity, disgust at what they’d done during the war, but I soon realised they were no different to any other nation.
  • (17) You can't overstate the enmity between the two parties, and Gordon Brown has personally devoted much of his political career trying to beat the nationalists into the ground.
  • (18) Erdoğan, speaking in the eastern city of Gaziantep, said that a ground operation was needed to defeat Isis – sidestepping accusations that he is unwilling to allow Kurds in Turkey to help their embattled kinfolk in Syria or to deploy the army across the border to fight Isis because of the country’s historic enmity towards Kurdish separatists – in addition to ongoing peace negotiations with them.
  • (19) But Seagal’s outspoken support for Putin and his policies have earned the enmity of the Ukrainian authorities.
  • (20) Explaining the motives for stirring up old enmities, Cercas tells the old man: “I just want to talk to you for a while, so I can tell what really happened, or your version of what happened.