hostility

English

Etymology

From Late Latin hostilitas.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /hɒˈstɪlᵻti/

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Noun

hostility (countable and uncountable; plural hostilities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.

   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

     But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.

2. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

Translations

state of being hostile

• Azeri: düşmənçilik (az)
• Bengali: বিবাদ (bn) (bibad)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敵意 (cmn), 敌意 (cmn) (díyì)

• Danish: fjendtlighed (da) c
• Dutch: hostiliteit (nl) f, vijandigheid (nl) f, vijandschap (nl) f
• French: hostilité (fr) f
• German: Feindseligkeit (de) f
• Greek: εχθρότητα (el) (echthrótita) f , εχθρικότητα (el) (echthrikótita) f 
• Italian: ostilità (it) f

• Japanese: 敵意 (ja) (てきい, tekii)
• Korean: 적의 (ko) (jeogui), 적대감 (ko) (jeokdaegam)
• Portuguese: hostilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: ostilitate (ro) f
• Russian: враждебность (ru) (vraždébnostʹ) f , вражда (ru) (vraždá) f , неприятие (ru) (neprijátije) n 
• Spanish: hostilidad (es) f
• Swedish: fientlighet (sv)
• Tatar: дошманлык (tt) (doşmanlıq)
• Turkish: düşmanlık (tr)

a hostile action, especially a military action

• Bengali: বিবাদ (bn) (bibad)
• Dutch: vijandigheid (nl) f,vijandelijkheid (nl) f

• Greek: εχθροπραξία (el) (echthropraxia) f 
• Russian: враждебный акт (ru) (vraždébnyj akt) m 

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Translations to be checked

• Latin: hostilitas nominative, hostilitatis genitive
• Old English: fǣhþ (ang) f
• Romanian: ostilitate (ro) f
• Spanish: hostilidad f