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ANTIPATHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
Example:
cats were his greatest antipathy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("antipathy" is a kind of...):
object (the focus of cognitions or feelings)
Derivation:
antipathetic (characterized by antagonism or antipathy)
antipathetic ((usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A feeling of intense dislike
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("antipathy" is a kind of...):
dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)
Derivation:
antipathetic (characterized by antagonism or antipathy)
antipathetic ((usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed)
antipathetical (characterized by antagonism or antipathy)
Context examples:
That eye of hers, that voice stirred every antipathy I had.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my wife, even when I found her nature wholly alien to mine, her tastes obnoxious to me, her cast of mind common, low, narrow, and singularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to anything larger—when I found that I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile—when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders—even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I had had no communication by letter or message with the outer world: school-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies—such was what I knew of existence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock—which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety—and adjusted my clean white tucker, I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax, and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
