Enmity

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

Quotations

 * 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.
 * 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.

Adjectives for Enmity
secret; everlasting; oblivious; lifelong; passionate; irreconcilable; unwarrantable; stolid; intense; dark.

Verbs for Enmity
abolish—; allay—; disarm—; drown—; earn—; enact through—; express—; frown upon—; ground on—; harbor—; incite—; incur—; nurse—; overcome—; perceive—; place—between; ponder—; set—between; bow—; vanquish—; —abates; —breaks; —separates; —severs; —splits.

Synonyms for Enmity
hostility, antagonism, animosity, rancor, antipathy, animus hatred, malice, spite, malignity, illwill, acrimony, malevolence, bitterness, dislike, opposition, unfriendliness, aversion, detestation, spitefulness, grudge, pique, abhorrence, repugnance, disgust.

Antonyms for Enmity
friendship, friendliness, kindness, kindliness, agreement, regard, amity, sympathy, harmony, intimacy, affinity, attachment, fellowship, companionship, adherence, confidence, goodwill, benevolence, cordiality, cooperation, concordance, conformity, esteem, peace, brotherliness, love.

Thesaurus
Discordia, Eris, Kilkenny cats, abhorrence, abomination, alienation, allergy, altercation, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, argument, aversion, bad blood, bickering, bitterness, cat-and-dog life, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, creeping flesh, cross-purposes, cut and thrust, daggers, dead set, debate, detestation, disaccord, disaffection, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disgust, disharmony, dislike, disputation, dispute, dissension, estrangement, fighting, fractiousness, friction, gall, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, jangle, jar, litigation, loathing, logomachy, malevolence, malice, malignancy, malignity, mischief, mortal horror, nausea, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, open conflict, oppugnancy, paper war, perverseness, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rancor, recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, repulsion, rivalry, rub, scrapping, shuddering, spite, spleen, squabbling, strained relations, strife, struggle, tension, uncooperativeness, uncordiality, unfriendliness, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, vying, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangling

Alternative forms

 * α-forms (tetrasyllabic):


 * enemyte
 * enemytee
 * ennemite
 * ennemyte
 * enemyte
 * enemytee
 * ennemite
 * ennemyte
 * enymyte
 * ennemyte
 * enymyte


 * enemitie
 * enemyte
 * enemytee
 * enimitie
 * enimity
 * ennemite
 * ennemyte
 * ennimitie
 * inimity
 * inimity


 * β-forms (trisyllabic):


 * enmite
 * enmitye
 * enmyte
 * enmytee
 * enmyte
 * enmytee
 * enmyte
 * enmytee


 * enmity
 * enmyte
 * enmytee
 * enmity
 * enmity
 * enmity

Etymology
From enemistié:, ennemistié:, from  *undefined:, from Latin inimicus:; cognates: French inimitié:, Portuguese enemistat:, Spanish enemistad:.

Translations

 * Albanian: armiqësi
 * Dutch: vijandschap
 * French: inimitié
 * Greek: εχθρότητα, έχθρα, μύνις


 * Old English:
 * Portuguese: inimizade
 * Romanian:, inimiciţie
 * Russian:, вражда, неприязнь