Meaning & use
hostility
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Unfriendly, aggressive, or antagonistic behavior or feeling toward someone.
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There was open hostility between the two rival departments after the merger.
The negotiators worked to defuse the hostility before it turned into a full walkout.
A note on using this word
Can describe a feeling ('a look of hostility') or, in its plural form 'hostilities,' formal acts of war, as in 'the outbreak of hostilities.'
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Words with an opposite meaning
friendlinessgoodwill
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