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Definition of Antipathy
Antipathy

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.

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Antipathy Quotations

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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

Antipathy Translations

antipathy in French is antipathie
antipathy in German is Antipathie {f}
antipathy in Swedish is antiparti, motvilja

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