(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.
Revulsion
Definition:
(n.) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
(n.) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.
(n.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
(3) It took place on 6 July 2011, two days after the Guardian had published the story about the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone that unleashed a wave of national revulsion and led to the closure of the News of the World.
(4) The foundation's decision to stand firm in the face of a nationwide wave of revulsion to last month's bloody events is all the more striking given that the organisation's headquarters are located in Newtown, just three miles from Sandy Hook school where the carnage occurred.
(5) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
(6) The revulsion was shared by Breivik's estranged father.
(7) Ruling parties, political elites and former ministers in a string of EU countries are embroiled in cash-for-influence scandals that are exposing widespread allegations of corruption, triggering public revulsion and a voters' backlash.
(8) The move was implemented by the party's chief whip, Nick Brown, and fuelled by backbench revulsion at claims that the trio had been using their ministerial experience to seek profitable lobbying consultancies.
(9) Another case that sparked public revulsion was that of Victoria Climbié, who was beaten, burned with cigarettes and forced to sleep in a binliner in a bath during her short life.
(10) Clinton repeated her support for a woman’s right to control her body, while Trump showed his revulsion of late-term abortions and repeatedly described it as “ rip[ping] the baby out of the womb ”.
(11) Revulsion against a discredited elite and its failed social and economic project steadily deepened after 2008.
(12) My revulsion at this act of terrorism happened in black church on a Wednesday night is twofold: I’m horrified that nine lives have been stolen, destroying life as it was known for countless families and an entire congregation; I’m nauseated that the good folks taking care of their communities on Wednesday nights will now do so with varying degrees of terror forever.
(13) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
(14) When South Africa's apartheid police massacred 69 people in Sharpeville in 1960, the revulsion spread as far as northern England.
(15) Tony Abbott says the world should be “filled with revulsion” at the news a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying at least 23 Australians was reportedly shot down in Ukraine on Thursday.
(16) Public revulsion at his actions played a decisive role in winning support for the lengthy campaign of peaceful civil disobedience led by Mahatma Gandhi which culminated in Indian independence in 1947.
(17) Today, in a sudden revulsion against market economics he is penalising buy-to-let investors – and their tenants.
(18) In 2010 the director of Rivarol , Jérôme Bourgon, told Le Monde : “For me Marine Le Pen is a demon , an absolute enemy from all points of view … It’s total revulsion, which is in fact reciprocal.” Marine has called on her father to fall on his sword and step out of the political ring.
(19) In May, two girls in Uttar Pradesh state found hanging from a tree had been gang-raped in a case that sparked public revulsion.
(20) I remember the embarrassment, the discomfort, at the lascivious drool coming from his chops, and the physical revulsion at his presumed erection from looking at a girl pretty much the same as me, but without the school uniform and with probably fewer chances in life.