hostility

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hostile or very unfriendly disposition

   They could not conceal their hostility.

2. 2
   noun

   the feeling of a hostile person

   They could no longer contain their hostility.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being hostile.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

   As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.

5. 5
   noun

   violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

6. 6
   noun

   a state of deep-seated ill-will

Etymology

From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās. By surface analysis, hostile + -ity.