hostility

Noun
Synonyms: ill willenmityantagonismaggression

WordNet 3.0

Noun (4)

  1. a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition“he could not conceal his hostility”Synonyms: ill will
  2. a state of deep-seated ill-willSynonyms: enmityantagonism
  3. the feeling of a hostile person“he could no longer contain his hostility”Synonyms: enmityill will
  4. violent action that is hostile and usually unprovokedSynonyms: aggression
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Hostility \Hos*til"i*ty\, n.; pl. Hostilities. [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit['e].]

1.State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. [1913 Webster]

Hostility being thus suspended with France.— Hayward.[1913 Webster]

2.An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities [1913 Webster]

He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend.— Crabb.

Syn: Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare. [1913 Webster]

The Devil's Dictionary

HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.
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