animosity
noun
[ ˌanɪˈmɒsɪti ]
• strong hostility.
• "he no longer felt any animosity towards her"
Similar:
antipathy,
hostility,
friction,
antagonism,
enmity,
animus,
opposition,
aversion,
acrimony,
bitterness,
rancour,
resentment,
dislike,
ill feeling,
bad feeling,
ill will,
bad blood,
hatred,
hate,
loathing,
detestation,
abhorrence,
odium,
malice,
spite,
spitefulness,
venom,
malevolence,
malignity,
grudges,
grievances,
disrelish,
Origin:
late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘spirit, courage’): from Old French animosite or late Latin animositas, from animosus ‘spirited’, from Latin animus ‘spirit, mind’. The current sense dates from the early 17th century.
