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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
Elizabeth Blackwell

Meaning of "antagonism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTAGONISM

antagonism  [ænˈtæɡəˌnɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTAGONISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antagonism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTAGONISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antagonism

Antagonism is hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness. Additionally, it may refer to: ▪ The characteristic of the Antagonist in literature ▪ Antagonism, where the involvement of multiple agents reduces their overall effect ▪ Antagonism, when a substance binds to the same site an antagonist would bind to without causing activation of the receptor ▪ Antagonism, a principle, force or factor that is an active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness ▪ Antagonism, the action of any microbes that suppresses the activity of a plant pathogen ▪ Reflexive antagonism, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other...

Definition of antagonism in the English dictionary

The first definition of antagonism in the dictionary is openly expressed and usually mutual opposition. Other definition of antagonism is the inhibiting or nullifying action of one substance or organism on another. Antagonism is also the normal opposition between certain muscles.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTAGONISM


Anglicanism
ˈæŋɡlɪkəˌnɪzəm
creationism
kriːˈeɪʃəˌnɪzəm
exhibitionism
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃəˌnɪzəm
expansionism
ɪkˈspænʃəˌnɪzəm
expressionism
ɪkˈsprɛʃəˌnɪzəm
hedonism
ˈhiːdəˌnɪzəm
humanism
ˈhjuːməˌnɪzəm
humanitarianism
hjuːˌmænɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm
impressionism
ɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm
isolationism
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃəˌnɪzəm
mechanism
ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm
microorganism
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm
modernism
ˈmɒdəˌnɪzəm
organism
ˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm
reductionism
rɪˈdʌkʃəˌnɪzəm
Satanism
ˈseɪtəˌnɪzəm
shamanism
ˈʃæməˌnɪzəm
urbanism
ˈɜːbəˌnɪzəm
vegetarianism
ˌvɛdʒɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm
Zionism
ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTAGONISM

anta
Antabuse
antacid
antae
Antaeus
antagonisable
antagonisation
antagonise
antagonist
antagonistic
antagonistically
antagonizable
antagonization
antagonize
Antakiya
Antakya
antalgic
antalkali
antalkaline

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTAGONISM

abolitionism
abstract expressionism
aldosteronism
anachronism
connectionism
constructionism
evolutionism
feminism
interactionism
interventionism
monism
Mormonism
obstructionism
Parkinsonism
perfectionism
protectionism
revisionism
synchronism
tectonism
trade unionism
unionism

Synonyms and antonyms of antagonism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ANTAGONISM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «antagonism» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of antagonism

Translation of «antagonism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTAGONISM

Find out the translation of antagonism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of antagonism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antagonism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

敌意
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antagonismo
570 millions of speakers

English

antagonism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विरोध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العداء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антагонизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antagonismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিরোধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antagonisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antagonisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Antagonismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

敵意
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반목
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antagonism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự tương phản
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முரண்பாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरोध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

düşmanlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antagonismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antagonizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антагонізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antagonism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανταγωνισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antagonisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antagonism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antagonisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antagonism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTAGONISM»

The term «antagonism» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.565 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTAGONISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antagonism

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10 QUOTES WITH «ANTAGONISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word antagonism.
1
Spiro T. Agnew
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
2
Jean Baudrillard
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
3
Louis de Bernieres
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
4
Elizabeth Blackwell
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
5
Edward Bond
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
6
Charles Horton Cooley
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
7
Mark Hanna
Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.
8
Harri Holkeri
My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
9
Eugene Jarecki
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.
10
Richard Lamm
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTAGONISM»

Discover the use of antagonism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antagonism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan ...
"--William J. Perry, Former Secretary of Defense and Special Advisor to the President on North Korea Policy "Cha's book is a meticulously documented yet readable account of the tensions and interactions between America's tow allies in ...
Victor D. Cha, 2000
2
British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & ...
British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860-1914 is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany and the Germans in the key period before the First World War.
Richard Scully, 2012
3
B Cell Trophic Factors and B Cell Antagonism in Autoimmune ...
This book is recommended reading for cellular and molecular immunologists as well as for rheumatologists, hematologists and clinical immunologists, and all those interested in human diseases in which B cells play an important contributory ...
William Stohl, 2005
4
Chaucerian Conflict : Languages of Antagonism in Late ...
Though most critics have promoted an idea of Chaucer's texts as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer presents a vision of a society that is inevitably divided and destructive.
Marion Turner, 2006
5
Fundamentals of Receptor, Enzyme, and Transport Kinetics
There are several types of antagonism. These are listed below according to the mechanism of antagonism. A. CHEMICAL ANTAGONISM In chemical antagonism the antagonist directly interacts with the agonist to render the agonist inactive.
John C. Matthews, 1993
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The Pharmacology of Functional, Biochemical, and Recombinant ...
G. Functional. Antagonism. Indirect recruitment of stimulus-response coupling mechanisms helps explain the importance of calcium influx in vasoconstriction responses to a- adrenoceptor stimulation but does not help to explain why a ...
Terrence P. Kenakin, James A. Angus, 2000
7
A Pharmacology Primer: Theory, Applications, and Methods
6.1 INTRODUCTION 99 6.2 KINETICS OF DRUG-RECEPTOR INTERACTION 99 6.3 SURMOUNTABLE COMPETITIVE ANTAGONISM 102 6.4 NONCOMPETITIVE ANTAGONISM 114 6.5 AGONIST-ANTAGONIST HEMI- EQUILIBRIA 117 6.6 ...
Terry Kenakin, 2010
8
Sex Antagonism
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Walter Heape, 2011
9
Antagonism in the Liberal Tradition
of antagonism (or, from now on, simply institutional antagonism), we mean that aspect of the antagonistic relationship that is directly observable; we mean antagonism as an observable social phenomenon. This means thinking of antagonism ...
Brandon P. Turner, 2008
10
Economics and the Antagonism of Time: Time, Uncertainty, and ...
A careful reconsideration of time in economics leads to a new paradigm of choice
Douglas Vickers, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTAGONISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antagonism is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Inner Conflict Gives Way to Antagonism
I am married and have children,' she said, 'but I seem to have lost all love. I am slowly drying up. Although I engage in social activities, they are ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
2
Empowering the Foremost State Sponsor of Terrorism
... and the conflict would not have spiraled into uncontrollable radicalism, antagonism and extremism. In other words, the Islamic Republic has ... «FrontPage Magazine, Jul 15»
3
'The Bachelorette' 2015 spoilers: Shawn Booth and Nick Viall's …
As for Nick, the insider says the antagonism is reciprocated. "Nick felt he had tried to get to know him and was rebuffed at every turn. He didn't ... «ChristianToday, Jul 15»
4
Politics in 2065: Primal or pragmatic?
... foreigners as threats, the marginalisation of sexual minorities and antagonism towards existing elites seen to be out of touch with the masses. «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
5
What to expect from Turkey's coalition government
Their antagonism alone should stop observers from daydreaming about taking giant leaps forward. One would be naive to identify an AK ... «Daily Sabah, Jul 15»
6
A decade of overspending: how Greece plunged into economic crisis
Already high defence costs continued to soar, propelled by years of antagonism with its neighbour Turkey. In 2011, three years after the crash, ... «Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide, Jul 15»
7
Pak-Afghan relations
Such a negative turnaround in relations will lead to antagonism between the two neighbours, which will be disastrous for the whole region. «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
8
K v D (Parental Conflict) [2015] EWFC 49
The antagonism between the parents was palpable in the courtroom and I consider that it is having a marked effect on the children's ability to ... «Family Law, Jul 15»
9
The Ideal is not Superior to Life
The ideal is not superior to life, and when we make it so there is confusion, antagonism and misery. Please enable JavaScript to view the ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
10
How Greece Crisis Sparked A New Era Of Extremist Politics
This vision is premised on national pride, defiance and an antagonism against the status quo – which explains the convergence of the ... «Youth Ki Awaaz, Jul 15»

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