animosity

From French animosité, from Latin animositas (“courage, spirit, vehemence”), from animosus, from animus (“courage, spirit, mind”); see animose, animate.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æn.ɪˈmɒs.ɪ.ti/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /æn.əˈmɑ.sɪ.ti/, [æn.əˈmɑ.sɪ.ɾi], [ɛən.əˈmɑ.sɪ.ɾi]

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /æn.əˈmɑ.sə.ti/, [æn.əˈmɑ.sə.ɾi], [ɛən.əˈmɑ.sə.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -ɒsɪti

animosity (countable and uncountable, plural animosities)

1. Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

   There was open animosity between the two rival teams.

   Despite years of conflict, she felt no animosity toward him.

   Political debates often stir up animosity.

• enmity
• hatred
• opposition
• acrimony

• peace

• animose
• unanimosity
• animositise

• “animosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.