Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness. synonym: enmity.
- noun The condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor.
- noun Biochemistry Interference in the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being mutually opposed; mutual resistance or opposition of two forces in action; contrariety of things or principles.
- noun The act of antagonizing; opposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A strong
natural dislike orhatred ;antipathy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
- noun a state of deep-seated ill-will
- noun the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors
- noun (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure
Etymologies
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Examples
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Antagonism never lulled revolution, and antagonism is about all the capitalist class offers.
Revolution 2010
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And even when they do manage to notice a rise in antagonism, they somehow employ the wrong strategy to placate it.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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I think that relationship of antagonism is pretty damn important to that type of fiction, and the fundamental difference in attitude between that and "pro-strange" WFA winners is a point of interest, surely.
Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008
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That my own rhetoric of antagonism is just as deserving of destruction as that of those monomaniacs I'm opposing.
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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That my own rhetoric of antagonism is just as deserving of destruction as that of those monomaniacs I'm opposing.
The Heirs of Job Hal Duncan 2006
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The CPIM believes in the genesis and development of the Tatas, Birlas, etc. through basically long-term antagonism with the British Capital.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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Some historians closer to the CPI have been pedalling for long such a distorted view on “the long-term antagonism and short-term accommodation and dependence” of the big bourgeoisie in India during the freedom movement which advanced “towards a bourgeois nation state and independent development.”
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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But despite this new knowledge, the mystery of the LSD-serotonin antagonism persisted.
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There is a certain antagonism between the hypophysis and the pancreas.
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When the antagonism is increased, poetry replaces the subordinate thought of the politician who makes poetry into an idea that can be exploited or extinguished.
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