hostility

English

Etymology

From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɒˈstɪlɪti/
• IPA^(key): /hɑˈstɪlɪti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

hostility (countable and uncountable, plural hostilities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.

   My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.

   • Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in 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.

   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

     The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.

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

Synonyms

• (state of being hostile): antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred, unfriendliness
• (military action): war, fighting, combat

Antonyms

• (state of being hostile): amity, friendliness
• (military action): peace

Related terms

• hostile

Translations

state of being hostile

• Azerbaijani: düşmənçilik
• Bengali: বিবাদ (bibad)
• Bulgarian: враждебност (bg) f (vraždebnost)
• Catalan: hostilitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敵意／敌意 (zh) (díyì), 敌意 (zh) (díyì)

• Danish: fjendtlighed c
• Dutch: hostiliteit (nl) f, vijandigheid (nl) f, vijandschap (nl) f
• Esperanto: malamikeco
• Finnish: vihamielisyys (fi)
• French: hostilité (fr) f
• German: Feindseligkeit (de) f
• Greek: εχθρότητα (el) f (echthrótita), εχθρικότητα (el) f (echthrikótita)

  Ancient: ἔχθρα f (ékhthra)

• Hungarian: viszály (hu), ellenségeskedés (hu)
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• Icelandic: fjandskapur m, óvild f, óvinátta f
• Italian: ostilità (it) f
• Japanese: 敵対 (ja) (てきたい, tekitai), 敵意 (ja) (てきい, tekii)
• Korean: 적의 (ko) (jeogui), 적대감 (jeokdaegam)
• Maori: whakariri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fiendtlighet m or f

• Portuguese: hostilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: ostilitate (ro) f, dușmănie (ro) f
• Russian: вражде́бность (ru) f (vraždébnostʹ), вражда́ (ru) f (vraždá), неприя́тие (ru) n (neprijátije)
• Spanish: hostilidad (es) f
• Swahili: uadui
• Swedish: fientlighet (sv)
• Tatar: дошманлык (tt) (doşmanlıq)
• Turkish: düşmanlık (tr), yağılık (tr), husumet (tr), hasımlık (tr), adavet (tr) (archaic)

hostile action, especially a military action

• Bengali: বিবাদ (bibad)
• Catalan: hostilitat f
• Dutch: vijandigheid (nl) f,vijandelijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: vihamielinen teko; sotatoimi
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• Greek: εχθροπραξία (el) f (echthropraxía)
• Japanese: 事変 (ja) (jihen)
• Russian: вражде́бный акт m (vraždébnyj akt)
• Spanish: hostilidad (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Latin: hostilitas
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} fǣhþ f
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• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} ostilitate (ro) f