Synonyms for antagonism
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1. hostility, enmity, antagonism(noun)

   a state of deep-seated ill-will

   Synonyms:
   aggression, hostility, enmity, ill will

2. antagonism(noun)

   the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors

   "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"

   Synonyms:
   hostility, enmity

3. antagonism(noun)

   an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility

   Synonyms:
   hostility, enmity

4. antagonism(noun)

   (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

   Synonyms:
   hostility, enmity

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1. antagonism

   Antipathy, repugnance, and uncongeniality are instinctive; other forms of dislike may be acquired or cherished for cause. Uncongeniality is negative, a want of touch or sympathy. An antipathy to a person or thing is an instinctive recoil from connection or association with that person or thing, and may be physical or mental, or both. Antagonism may result from the necessity of circumstances; opposition may spring from conflicting views or interests; abhorrence and detestation may be the result of religious and moral training; distaste and disgust may be acquired; aversion is a deep and permanent dislike. A natural antipathy may give rise to opposition which may result in hatred and hostility. Compare ACRIMONY; ANGER; ENMITY; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, hostility, opposition, repugnance, repulsion, uncongeniality

   Antonyms:
   affinity, agreement, attraction, congeniality, fellow-feeling, harmony, kindliness, regard, sympathy

   Preposition:
   Antipathy to (less frequently for or against) a person or thing; antipathy between or betwixt two persons or things.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. antagonism

   Synonyms:
   hostility, opposition, animosity, enmity

   Antonyms:
   amity, alliance, association

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. opposition and hatred

   unfortunately people are motivated by antagonism

   Submitted by anonymous on December 2, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. antagonism(n.)

   Synonyms:
   opposition, contrariety, repugnance, contradiction, clashing

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1. List of paraphrases:

   enmity, hostility, confrontation, antagonistic, hostile

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How to use antagonism in a sentence?

1. Shaina Louis:

   Prior to Birthright AFRICA, I had a lot of pent up resentment and antagonism due to a history that I felt my people had no say in. For those of us in the diaspora, our history, according to the textbooks, starts with slavery. I was doubtful and kind of cynical about what the future held not only for me as an individual, but also for black people as a whole.

2. John Stuart Mill:

   The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary,....

3. Marik Stern:

   A lot of us have developed a political identity different to our parents, they came here with a great antagonism to socialism and anything that has even a whiff of Soviet to it. They are very capitalist.

4. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

   It was very difficult to get everybody around the table. It certainly is going to be even more difficult to get everybody back around the table if you have the Saudis and the Iranians trading public barbs and public expressions of antagonism between the two countries.

5. Enid Bagnold:

   It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

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