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Antagonism

noun

A state of deep-seated ill-will. Synonyms: enmity, hostility.

The relation between opposing principles or forces or factors.

An actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility.

(biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure.

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"Antagonism" Quotes from Famous Books

... and an antagonism to authority so often follow the attainment of puberty that they are usually considered to be its results. My own experience with boys satisfies me that this conclusion is not correct. Self-consciousness, when it occurs in boyhood, is usually the result of an ...

— Youth and Sex • Mary Scharlieb and F. Arthur Sibly

... temperature—allow me the word—of our hearts I felt myself as near my patron as I was far below him in rank. In short, the soul has its clairvoyance; it has presentiments of suffering, grief, joy, antagonism, or hatred in others. ...

— Honorine • Honore de Balzac

... vice-presidents; Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Bloomer, secretaries. In accepting the presidency, Mrs. Stanton made a powerful speech, certain parts of which acted as a bombshell not only at this meeting, but in press, pulpit and society. The two points which aroused most antagonism were: ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... learned to lean upon his strong, clear mind, and to find in his society a quiet but very precious happiness. The antagonism of their characters was doubtless one cause of the attraction which each found in the other, and furnished ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... worse before it could hope to be better. He contemplated a continually exacerbated Class War, with a millennium of extraordinary vagueness beyond as the reward of the victorious workers. His common quality with the Individualist lies in his repudiation of and antagonism to plans and arrangements, in his belief in the overriding power of Law. Their common influence is the discouragement of collective understandings upon the basis of the existing state. Both converge in practice upon laissez faire. I would therefore lump them together ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

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