enmity

English

Alternative forms

Variant spellings

(tetrasyllabic)

• (14^th-century):
  • enemyte
  • enemytee
  • ennemite
  • ennemyte
• (15^th-century):
  • enemyte
  • enemytee
  • ennemite
  • ennemyte
  • enymyte

• (16^th-century):
  • enemitie
  • enemyte
  • enemytee
  • enimitie
  • enimity
  • ennemite
  • ennemyte
  • ennimitie
  • inimity

(trisyllabic)

• (14^th-century):
  • enmite
  • enmitye
  • enmyte
  • enmytee
• (15^th-century):
  • enmyte
  • enmytee

• (16^th-century):
  • enmity
  • enmyte
  • enmytee
• (17^th-century–present):
  • enmity

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.tɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.tiː/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.

     Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.

2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

Quotations

• Template:RQ:Authorized Version

  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Synonyms

• enemyship, hostility, enemyhood, antagonism, animosity, rancor, antipathy, animus, foeship

Antonyms

• amity

Translations

hostile or unfriendly disposition

• Albanian: armiqësi (sq)
• Arabic: عَدَاوَةٌ f (ʕadāwatun)

  Egyptian Arabic: عداوة f (ʕadāwa)

• Azerbaijani: düşmənçilik
• Bulgarian: вражда (bg) f (vražda), враждебност (bg) f (vraždebnost)
• Catalan: enemistat f
• Danish: fjendskab c
• Dutch: vijandschap (nl), animositeit (nl) m
• Esperanto: malamikeco
• Finnish: vihamielisyys (fi)
• French: inimitié (fr) f
• German: Feindschaft (de) f
• Greek: εχθρότητα (el) f (echthrótita), έχθρα (el) f (échthra), μύνις f (mýnis)

  Ancient: ἔχθρα f (ékhthra)

• Hungarian: viszály (hu)
• Italian: inimicizia (it) f, ostilità (it) f
• Japanese: 敵意 (ja) (tekii), 敵対 (ja) (tekitai)
• Latin: inimicitia f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: ito, pukuriri
• Norman: enn'mité f
• Old English: fǣhþ f
• Persian: دشمنی (fa) (došmani)
• Polish: wrogość (pl) f, nieprzyjaźń f
• Portuguese: inimizade (pt) f
• Romanian: dușmănie (ro) f, inimiciție (ro) f
• Russian: вражде́бность (ru) f (vraždébnostʹ), вражда́ (ru) f (vraždá), неприя́знь (ru) f (neprijáznʹ)
• Spanish: enemistad (es) f
• Swahili: uadui
• Swedish: fiendskap (sv) c
• Telugu: శత్రుత్వము (te) (śatrutvamu)
• Tok Pisin: pasin birua
• Turkish: yağılık (tr), husumet (tr), adavet (tr) (archaic), düşmanlık (tr), hasımlık (tr)

References

• “enmity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “enmity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Notes: