What's the difference between antipathy and loathing?

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.

Loathing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loathe
  • (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
  • (2) He also loathed war, and later opposed the Falklands, Gulf and Kosovo campaigns.
  • (3) Mutual loathing (if this is the opinion of trained soldiers, what must it be like among the population?)
  • (4) The Freedom Caucus, a group of Tea Party conservatives, have come to loathe Boehner for working too closely with House Democrats and the White House to pass bills – including last week’s continuing resolution to fund the government – despite their inclusion of provisions hated by the right, such as funding for Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.
  • (5) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
  • (6) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
  • (7) Bridget's combination of self-loathing, enthusiasm and hope against the odds struck a chord.
  • (8) We loathe each other," is the latest from his nemesis on that.)
  • (9) It is now the official opposition, boosted by the star quality of the Tory leader Ruth Davidson and Scotland has given the once loathed party of Margaret Thatcher its biggest fillip since the 1950s.
  • (10) So, by that token, the public would have loathed PMQs and loved the civilised debate on Stafford hospital that followed.
  • (11) But anyone who has had to apply for sickness benefits may find that the name triggers – according to one MP – a sense of "fear and loathing".
  • (12) Detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America' | Mem Fox Read more After receiving notice that his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.
  • (13) The ministering of fear: dystopia and loathing at the Republican convention Read more Fortified versions of Soviet “ Zil lanes ” allowed leaders to shuttle safely between venues, behind high fences separating them from the rest of the street.
  • (14) If they did, they are smart,” he offered although, while the manager was loath to admit it, the suspended Cesc Fàbregas had still been missed.
  • (15) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
  • (16) During his time as education secretary, Michael Gove was loathed by the majority of the education professionals.
  • (17) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
  • (18) Truly, a titbit with such potential for female anxiety and self-loathing is like an iron filing to the media's magnet.
  • (19) Meanwhile, Tory backbenchers' cup of loathing for the Lib Dems overflows.
  • (20) Margaret Thatcher’s ideological spite towards a working class that she loathed for their solidarity had robbed huge swaths of the country of their sense of identity.