Enmity

Quick meaning: Enmity is a noun meaning The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.

Meaning

The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.

More Meanings

1. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

Example Sentences

I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.

We know from their literature that to our Saxon ancestors waste places of moor and forest and marshes were the resort of a host of supernatural creatures at enmity with mankind.

Maybe only a system that can contain the deep enmity between people who spell the metal aluminum and those who spell it aluminium is up to the task of preserving our fragile democratic institutions.

Word Forms

• enmities

Synonyms for enmity

Depending on context, synonyms include animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, enemyhood, enemyness.

Antonyms for enmity

Common opposites include amity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antagonism, hostility, hostile, enemy, animosity, hatred.

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