Enmity vs. Feud — What's the Difference?

Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.

A feud , referred to in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, clan war, gang war, or private war, is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially families or clans. Feuds begin because one party (correctly or incorrectly) perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted, wronged, or otherwise injured by another.

A feeling or state of hatred or animosity

A prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

Be engaged in a prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute

A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

A bitter, often prolonged quarrel or state of enmity, especially such a state of hostilities between two families or clans.

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

See fee.

A state of opposition; hostility.

To carry on or perpetuate a bitter quarrel or state of enmity.

A state of deep-seated ill-will

A state of long-standing mutual hostility.

The feeling of a hostile person;

(professional wrestling) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.

(obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.

(intransitive) To carry on a feud.

A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of a superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

A bitter quarrel between two parties

Carry out a feud;