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I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.
Richard E. Robbins

Meaning of "antipathy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANTIPATHY

From Latin antipathia, from Greek antipatheia, from anti- + patheia feeling.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTIPATHY

antipathy  [ænˈtɪpəθɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTIPATHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antipathy 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 ANTIPATHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antipathy

Antipathy is dislike for something or somebody, the opposite of sympathy. While antipathy may be induced by experience, it sometimes exists without a rational cause-and-effect explanation being present to the individuals involved. Thus, the origin of antipathy has been subject to various psychological explanations, which some people find convincing and others regard as highly speculative. Sigmund Freud treated this subject.

Definition of antipathy in the English dictionary

The definition of antipathy in the dictionary is a feeling of intense aversion, dislike, or hostility. Other definition of antipathy is the object of such a feeling.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTIPATHY


allelopathy
ˌælɪˈlɒpəθɪ
allopathy
əˈlɒpəθɪ
apathy
ˈæpəθɪ
cardiomyopathy
ˌkɑːdɪəʊmaɪˈɒpəθɪ
empathy
ˈɛmpəθɪ
encephalopathy
ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒpəθɪ
enteropathy
ˌentəˈrɒpəθɪ
homeopathy
ˌhəʊmɪˈɒpəθɪ
homoeopathy
ˌhəʊmɪˈɒpəθɪ
kinesipathy
ˌkɪniːˈsɪpəθɪ
lymphadenopathy
lɪmˌfædɪˈnɒpəθɪ
myelopathy
ˌmaɪəˈlɒpəθɪ
myopathy
maɪˈɒpəθɪ
naturopathy
ˌneɪtʃəˈrɒpəθɪ
nephropathy
nɛfˈrɒpəθɪ
neuropathy
njʊˈrɒpəθɪ
osteopathy
ˌɒstɪˈɒpəθɪ
retinopathy
ˌrɛtɪˈnɒpəθɪ
sympathy
ˈsɪmpəθɪ
telepathy
tɪˈlɛpəθɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTIPATHY

antipapal
antiparallel
antiparasitic
antiparticle
antiparty
antipasti
antipasto
Antipater
antipathetic
antipathetical
antipathetically
antipathic
antipathies
antipathist
antiperiodic
antiperistalsis
antiperistaltic
antiperistasis
antipersonnel
antiperspirant

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTIPATHY

adenopathy
anthropopathy
arthropathy
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
cardiopathy
cranial osteopathy
dyspathy
enantiopathy
endocrinopathy
haemoglobinopathy
hemoglobinopathy
hydropathy
idiopathy
myalgic encephalopathy
myocardiopathy
naprapathy
protopathy
sociopathy
swathy
tea and sympathy
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Synonyms and antonyms of antipathy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ANTIPATHY»

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

Translation of «antipathy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTIPATHY

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

Translator English - Chinese

憎恶
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aversión
570 millions of speakers

English

antipathy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घृणा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكراهية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антипатия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antipatia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিদ্বেষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antipathie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antipati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Antipathie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

嫌悪
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반감
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antipati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lòng ác cam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெறுப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विवेक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

antipati
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antipatia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antypatia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антипатія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antipatie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιπάθεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weersin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

motvilja
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antipati
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antipathy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIPATHY»

The term «antipathy» is regularly used and occupies the 91.096 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIPATHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «antipathy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «antipathy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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9 QUOTES WITH «ANTIPATHY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word antipathy.
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Franz Boas
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Louis Freeh
I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.
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Gregory Maguire
My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.
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Richard E. Robbins
I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.
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Rick Santorum
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
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George Tenet
Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.
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Ayelet Waldman
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTIPATHY»

Discover the use of antipathy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antipathy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sympathy and antipathy: essays legal and philosophical
The author of this book shares Bentham's views about sympathy and antipathy and shows that the principle is alive and well in legal philosophy today
James Allan, 2002
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Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature ...
In her engaging book, Constructing the Enemy, Rajini Srikanth probes the concept of empathy, attempting to understand its different types and how it is—or isn't—generated and maintained in specific circumstances.
Rajini Srikanth, 2012
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A Mortal Antipathy - First Opening of the New Portfolio
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 2011
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A Mortal Antipathy
XV. DK. BUTTS CALLS ON EUTHTMIA. The doctor was troubled in thinking over his interview with the young lady. She was fully possessed with the idea that she had discovered the secret which had defied the most sagacious heads of the ...
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A Mortal Antipathy
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2008
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Wednesday's Child: Research Into Women's Experience of ...
PREVALENCE OF ANTIPATHY In our Representative London Women series as many as 33 per cent of women experienced antipathy from at least one of their parents in childhood at a 'marked' or 'moderate' level.4But antipathy from both ...
Antonia Bifulco, Patricia Moran, 2002
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English Texts & Contexts 1: An Outcomes Approach to Stage 4
ANTIPATHY. Empathy, sympathy and antipathy are feelings that you show in response to people and events. These feelings give you a greater understanding of texts and can help you enjoy and get more out of the experience of responding .
F. Pollock, 2003
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Antipathy
This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
John Ainslie, 2010
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Your Soular System: Meaning, Self-analysis and Soul - a Path ...
The woman's physical and feeling spaces are violated by the rapist, through the force of his Antipathy. • Someone comments on your dress style: 'I think the way you dress is offensive, non-stylish and repulsive!' This person has violated your ...
Everard S. Polakow, 2001
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The Burning Bush
We must be clear that certain forces in the human being reflect back the prenatal reality and hold the after-death reality in "Seed," namely, antipathy and sympathy. When we incarnate, by entering the physical world we cannot remain in the ...
Edward Reaugh Smith, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTIPATHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antipathy is used in the context of the following news items.
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GOP extols worker training, then slashes funding for it
That suits McConnell's antipathy for the EPA and its climate change agenda, which threatens his allies in the coal industry. But it also sets the ... «Politico, Jul 15»
2
Michael Clarke has evolved into a captain Australia has finally …
Public antipathy towards Clarke grew post-Katich. The dressing-room disputes symbolised a generational split. Against an idea of Australian ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
War Veterans Lead the Way in Reconciling Former Enemies
There has been a longstanding antipathy in Vietnam toward China, with which it fought a border war in 1979 and has clashed over territorial ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Our Opinion: Tragedy eased when needed change results
... force, a reaction whose roots are in the departments' antipathy toward blacks and failure to build a positive presence in black neighborhoods. «Brattleboro Reformer, Jul 15»
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Short Take: ​Trump v. Bush: The GOP Spectrum on Immigration
(CBS News) -- Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are now locked in mutual antipathy over the question of immigration. It results from Trump's ... «CBS News, Jul 15»
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Learning to hurt so that we don't harm
Certainly threaten the marriage with undigested, erosive energies of antipathy and declining respect. I think of the ancient Hebrew story of ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
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Greek referendum: a lose lose for Europe
It seems pretty obvious if an external group (even more so one headed by a country the Greeks have an historical antipathy towards) makes ... «Slugger O'Toole, Jul 15»
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Apart from Greece, earnings reports may move market this week
Many economists say the long- term project of the eurozone has been weakened by the obvious antipathy in Greece and elsewhere to Brussels ... «THE BUSINESS TIMES, Jul 15»
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China-built runway “nearly complete” in South China Sea, images …
... as the region's emerging power challenged the idea that common economic interests would overcome traditional historical antipathy. «The Bell Jar, Jul 15»
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Tom Kerr: Legends home would be ideal Kauto tribute
... and owner whose love of the horse was seemingly matched by their antipathy to each other, but perhaps from the ashes of this rancour some good can arise. «Racing Post, Jul 15»

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