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enmity
Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
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  1. Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
  2. A feeling or state of hatred or animosity:
  3. The bitter attitude or feelings of an enemy or of mutual enemies; hostility; antagonism
hatred
Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.
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  1. Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.
  2. Strong dislike or ill will; hate
  3. Intense animosity or hostility.
abhorrence
One that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
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  1. One that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
  2. An abhorring; loathing; detestation
  3. A feeling of repugnance or loathing.
aversion
The object arousing such dislike
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  1. The object arousing such dislike
  2. The act or fact of averting:
  3. An intense or definite dislike; antipathy; repugnance
bellicoseness
The state or quality of being bellicose; bellicosity
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  1. The state or quality of being bellicose; bellicosity
bellicosity
The characteristic of being bellicose.
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  1. The characteristic of being bellicose.
belligerence
A state of being belligerent
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  1. A state of being belligerent
  2. A belligerent or aggressively hostile attitude, nature, or quality
  3. A hostile or warlike attitude, nature, or inclination; belligerency.
belligerency
The state of being at war or being engaged in a warlike conflict.
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  1. The state of being at war or being engaged in a warlike conflict.
  2. Belligerence.
militance
(Countable) A hostile or warlike act
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  1. (Countable) A hostile or warlike act
  2. (Uncountable) The condition of being militant
militancy
Militant quality, behavior, etc.
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  1. Militant quality, behavior, etc.
pugnaciousness
The act or quality of being pugnacious.
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  1. The act or quality of being pugnacious.
pugnacity
The act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.
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  1. The act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.
truculency
A truculent remark or behaviour
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  1. A truculent remark or behaviour
  2. Truculence
animosity
Bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred.
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  1. Bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred.
  2. A hostile feeling or act.
  3. A feeling of strong dislike or hatred; ill will; hostility
animus
A feeling of animosity; ill will.
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  1. A feeling of animosity; ill will.
  2. A feeling of strong ill will or hatred; animosity
  3. An attitude that informs one's actions; disposition or intention.
antagonism
A strong natural dislike or hatred; antipathy.
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  1. A strong natural dislike or hatred; antipathy.
  2. Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness.
  3. The condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor:
antipathy
The object of such dislike
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  1. The object of such dislike
  2. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  3. (Obs.) An opposition in character, nature, tendency, etc.
enmity
Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
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  1. Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
  2. A feeling or state of hatred or animosity:
  3. The bitter attitude or feelings of an enemy or of mutual enemies; hostility; antagonism
ill will
Ill-disposed attitude; grudge; dislike.
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  1. Ill-disposed attitude; grudge; dislike.
  2. Alternative spelling of ill will.
  3. Unfriendly feeling; hostility; hate; malice
aggression
The practice or habit of taking hostile actions or launching military attacks:
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  1. The practice or habit of taking hostile actions or launching military attacks:
  2. Forceful, assertive, or overbearing behavior or attitudes:
  3. Hostile or destructive behavior or attitudes:
aggressiveness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being aggressive.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being aggressive.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being aggressive.
belligerence
A belligerent or aggressively hostile attitude, nature, or quality
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  1. A belligerent or aggressively hostile attitude, nature, or quality
  2. A state of being belligerent
  3. A hostile or warlike attitude, nature, or inclination; belligerency.
belligerency
Belligerence.
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  1. Belligerence.
  2. The state of being at war or being engaged in a warlike conflict.
militance
(Countable) A hostile or warlike act
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  1. (Countable) A hostile or warlike act
  2. (Uncountable) The condition of being militant
militancy
Militant quality, behavior, etc.
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  1. Militant quality, behavior, etc.
conflict
Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.
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  1. Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.
  2. A fight or struggle, esp. a protracted one; war
  3. A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
confrontation
The act of confronting or the state of being confronted, especially a meeting face to face.
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  1. The act of confronting or the state of being confronted, especially a meeting face to face.
  2. A conflict between armed forces
  3. A focused comparison:
strife
Contention or competition between rivals.
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  1. Contention or competition between rivals.
  2. The act or state of fighting or quarreling, esp. bitterly; struggle; conflict
  3. A conflict or quarrel:
struggle
The act of struggling:
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  1. The act of struggling:
  2. Strife, contention, or combat:
  3. Conflict; strife; contention
war
Military operations as a profession or science
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  1. Military operations as a profession or science
  2. The period of such conflict.
  3. A condition of active antagonism or contention:
warfare
Military operations marked by a specific characteristic:
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  1. Military operations marked by a specific characteristic:
  2. Conflict or struggle of any kind
  3. The waging of war against an enemy; armed conflict.
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  • The hostility in his voice and expression was unnerving.

  • Nothing was truly resolved except possibly the hostility between them.

  • He probably didn't realize that his hostility toward Señor Medena was being transferred to Jonathan as anxiety.

  • The natives showed their usual hostility, killing all stragglers.

  • Meanwhile France provided Italy with fresh cause for uneasiness by abating her hostility to Germany.

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