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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Antipathy \An*tip"a*thy\, n.; pl. {Antipathies}. [L. antipathia,
     Gr. ?; 'anti` against + ? to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See
     {Pathos}.]
     1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or
        dislike; repugnance; distaste.
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              Inveterate antipathies against particular nations,
              and passionate attachments to others, are to be
              avoided.                              --Washington.
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     2. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of
        qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
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              A habit is generated of thinking that a natural
              antipathy exists between hope and reason. --I.
                                                    Taylor.
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     Note: Antipathy is opposed to {sympathy}. It is followed by
           to, against, or between; also sometimes by for.
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     Syn: Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity;
          ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See
          {Dislike}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  antipathy
       n 1: a feeling of intense dislike [syn: {aversion}, {distaste}]
       2: the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be
          avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "antipathy":
     Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, allergy,
     anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antithesis,
     averseness, aversion, avoidance, backlash, backwardness, bad blood,
     belligerence, bigotry, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision,
     competition, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contention,
     contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition,
     contrariety, contrariness, contrast, counteraction,
     counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, creeping flesh,
     cross-purposes, crotchetiness, cursoriness, despitefulness,
     detestation, disaccord, disagreement, discrepancy, disgust,
     disinclination, dislike, disobedience, disrelish, dissension,
     dissent, distaste, enmity, escape, eschewal, evasion, execration,
     foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent,
     grudgingness, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, inconsistency,
     indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inimicalness,
     interference, intractableness, kick, lack of enthusiasm,
     lack of zeal, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry,
     misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, mutinousness, nausea,
     negativeness, nolition, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy,
     odium, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy,
     peeve, perfunctoriness, perverseness, perversity, pet peeve,
     phobia, polarity, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, rancor,
     reaction, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness,
     refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repellency,
     repercussion, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, revolt, rivalry,
     showdown, shuddering, slowness, spite, spitefulness, stubbornness,
     sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream,
     uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, vials of hate,
     vials of wrath, vying, xenophobia
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ANTIPATHY, n.  The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
  
  

















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