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antipathy

noun
/ænˈtɪpəθi/UK

Etymology

PIE word *h₂énti Borrowed from Middle French antipathie (“deep dislike; object of dislike; incompatibility between things”) (modern French antipathie (“dislike, antipathy”)), and from its etymon Latin antipathīa (“counteraction; natural aversion, antipathy”), from Ancient Greek ἀντῐπάθειᾰ (antĭpátheiă, “suffering instead”), Koine Greek ἀντῐπάθειᾰ (antĭpátheiă, “contrary affection; contrast; counteraction; opposition”), from ἀντῐπᾰθής (antĭpăthḗs, “(adjective) felt mutually; in return for suffering; (noun) remedy for suffering”) (from ἀντι- (anti-, prefix meaning ‘against’) + πᾰ́θος (pắthos, “death; disaster; misfortune; pain; suffering; strong feeling, emotion, passion, pathos”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind; a bond”) or *kʷendʰ- (“to endure; to suffer”)) + -ης (-ēs, suffix forming third-declension adjectives)) + -ειᾰ (-eiă, suffix forming feminine adjectives and nouns).

  1. derived from *bʰendʰ-✻ — “to bind; a bond”
  2. derived from ἀντῐπάθειᾰ — “contrary affection; contrast; counteraction; opposition”
  3. derived from ἀντῐπάθειᾰ — “suffering instead”
  4. borrowed from antipathīa — “counteraction; natural aversion, antipathy”
  5. borrowed from antipathie — “deep dislike; object of dislike; incompatibility between things”

Definitions

  1. Often followed by against, between, for, or to

    Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.

    • For of our Alphabet the .P. doth omenouſly begin / Of theſe this much diſtaſted Ranck, […] vvere other Rankes not free / Of Publique-vveales Antipathie, prooling and peruerſe, P.
    • A Sect, vvhoſe chief Devotion lies / In odde perverſe Antipathies; / In falling out vvith that or this, / And finding ſomevvhat ſtill amiſs: […]

  2. Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they…

    Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.

    • Oil and water have antipathy.
    • Every one knovvs that there are among Brute Creatures many natural Averſions and Antipathies, vvhich direct ſuch Beings as are void of Reaſon to fly from thoſe Animals vvhich ſeek their Deſtruction.

  3. A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards

    A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.

    • Let him be to thee, an Antipathy, / A thing thy nature ſvveates at, and turnes backvvard: […]
    • Dr. Slicer is decidedly one of my antipathies and I shall not go to ride with him. Why has he taken to coming here?
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A person or thing that has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards another…

      A person or thing that has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards another person or thing; a hater.

    2. The quality of being antipathetic

      The quality of being antipathetic: not easily united by grafting.

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Derived

antipathise, antipathize, antipathist, antipathite, antipathous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at antipathy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at antipathy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at antipathy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA