Definition of Antipathy

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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

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

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

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Marshall McLuhan

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

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.
Rick Santorum

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.
Franz Boas

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.
Louis Freeh

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
Martin C. Smith

Antipathy Translations

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

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