Enmity vs. Animosity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Enmity and Animosity
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Enmity
Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
Animosity
Bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred.
Enmity
A feeling or state of hatred or animosity
"More than almost any public man I have ever met, he has avoided exciting personal enmities" (Theodore Roosevelt).
Animosity
A hostile feeling or act.
Enmity
The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
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Animosity
Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
Enmity
A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
Animosity
Mere spiritedness or courage.
Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth.
Enmity
The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
No ground of enmity between us known.
Animosity
Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
Such [writings] as naturally conduce to inflame hatreds and make enmities irreconcilable.
[These] factions . . . never suspended their animosities till they ruined that unhappy government.
Enmity
A state of opposition; hostility.
The friendship of the world is enmity with God.
Animosity
A feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
Enmity
A state of deep-seated ill-will
Enmity
The feeling of a hostile person;
He could no longer contain his hostility
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