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“animosity”
1. A feeling or spirit of hostility, loathing, and resentment: Only one kind of passion is represented in animosity and that is the fervor of repugnance or revulsion.
2. A very strong and hostile dislike or hatred for others or for one’s situation: Gertrude, a TV reporter, developed animosity for those in the audience who criticized her overweight condition.
3. Etymology: animosity originally meant "animation, spirit", as the fire of a horse, called in Latin equi animositas.![A man exhibits animosity or hatred to the extent that he is like an animal monster.](https://wordinfo.info/words/images/zoo-man-monster-image.gif)
![A display or expression of hostile action.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-1.jpg)
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![A bitter hostility or hatred.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-2.jpg)
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![A tendency to show hostile action and enmity.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-3.jpg)
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![An illwill toward others.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-4.jpg)
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2. A very strong and hostile dislike or hatred for others or for one’s situation: Gertrude, a TV reporter, developed animosity for those in the audience who criticized her overweight condition.
3. Etymology: animosity originally meant "animation, spirit", as the fire of a horse, called in Latin equi animositas.
Its present exclusive use in a "bad sense" is an instance of the tendency by which words originally neutral have come to assume a bad meaning.
![A man exhibits animosity or hatred to the extent that he is like an animal monster.](https://wordinfo.info/words/images/zoo-man-monster-image.gif)
Here is an extreme example of animosity with elements of animalistic psychosis.
![A display or expression of hostile action.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-1.jpg)
![A bitter hostility or hatred.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-2.jpg)
![A tendency to show hostile action and enmity.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-3.jpg)
![An illwill toward others.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/animosity-4.jpg)
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“animosity”
Ill will and a feeling or spirit of hostility, hatred, and resentment about someone or something. (4)
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