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hostility

noun
/hɒˈstɪlɪti/UK/hɑˈstɪlɪti/US

Etymology

From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās. By surface analysis, hostile + -ity.

  1. derived from hostīlitās
  2. derived from hostilité
  3. inherited from hostilitie

Definitions

  1. The state of being hostile.

    • My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.
    • There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
    • But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.

  2. A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural…

    A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

    • As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.

The neighborhood

  • antonymamityantonym(s) of “state of being hostile”
  • antonymfriendlinessantonym(s) of “state of being hostile”
  • antonympeaceantonym(s) of “military action”
  • neighborhostile

Derived

horizontal hostility, nonhostility, prehostility

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hostility. 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.

01hostility02military03armed04loaded05ammunition06charging07offensive08anger

A definitional loop anchored at hostility. 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 hostility

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