Antagonism
noun
Active hostility or opposition between individuals or groups.
There's always been a certain amount of antagonism between the two staff members.
Often appears as...
- antagonism between
- antagonism toward
noun
The inhibition or interference of the normal biological action of a molecule, organism, or system.
The doctor mentioned something about antagonism of the drug's effects.
Often appears as...
- antagonism of the drug
- antagonism in the body
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Active hostility or opposition between individuals or groups.
There's always been a certain amount of antagonism between the two staff members.
Often appears as...
- antagonism between
- antagonism toward
noun
The inhibition or interference of the normal biological action of a molecule, organism, or system.
The doctor mentioned something about antagonism of the drug's effects.
Often appears as...
- antagonism of the drug
- antagonism in the body
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Antagonism often implies deep-seated ill-will and may hint at ongoing conflicts.
The debate was marked by a deep-rooted antagonism, well beyond simple disagreement.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Context
Use 'antagonism' when describing situations that involve clear opposition or rivalry.
The antagonism between the siblings grew over the inheritance dispute.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Antagonism is more intense than mere disagreement, often hinting at active efforts to oppose.
His antagonism toward the proposal led to a heated argument.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Antagonism often implies deep-seated ill-will and may hint at ongoing conflicts.
The debate was marked by a deep-rooted antagonism, well beyond simple disagreement.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Context
Use 'antagonism' when describing situations that involve clear opposition or rivalry.
The antagonism between the siblings grew over the inheritance dispute.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Antagonism is more intense than mere disagreement, often hinting at active efforts to oppose.
His antagonism toward the proposal led to a heated argument.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Antagonism often implies deep-seated ill-will and may hint at ongoing conflicts.
The debate was marked by a deep-rooted antagonism, well beyond simple disagreement.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Context
Use 'antagonism' when describing situations that involve clear opposition or rivalry.
The antagonism between the siblings grew over the inheritance dispute.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Antagonism is more intense than mere disagreement, often hinting at active efforts to oppose.
His antagonism toward the proposal led to a heated argument.
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Video examples
The Aztecs: From Empire...
that's in part because the brain gods became kind of a stand-in for the noah mirroring the way the achane represented the mestizos the rain gods and achane would frequently get into fights the tension between the rain gods and the achane mirrors the tension between the nawa and the mestizos because there's a lot of antagonism
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I grew up in the...
I wanted to hide from the judgement of my family, who I knew would never speak to me again -- people whose thoughts and opinions had meant everything to me. And I wanted to hide from the world I'd rejected for so long -- people who had no reason at all to give me a second chance after a lifetime of antagonism.
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Japanese Bees Swarm...
pollen from the plant by mimicking the pheromone of the giant Hornet the orchid is exploiting the ancient antagonism between the two insects
Video examples
The Aztecs: From Empire...
that's in part because the brain gods became kind of a stand-in for the noah mirroring the way the achane represented the mestizos the rain gods and achane would frequently get into fights the tension between the rain gods and the achane mirrors the tension between the nawa and the mestizos because there's a lot of antagonism
Video examples
I grew up in the...
I wanted to hide from the judgement of my family, who I knew would never speak to me again -- people whose thoughts and opinions had meant everything to me. And I wanted to hide from the world I'd rejected for so long -- people who had no reason at all to give me a second chance after a lifetime of antagonism.
Video examples
Japanese Bees Swarm...
pollen from the plant by mimicking the pheromone of the giant Hornet the orchid is exploiting the ancient antagonism between the two insects
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Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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Clara Zetkin
German Politician
In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
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Joseph Stalin
Georgian Leader
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
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John Mott
American Leader
Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.
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Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
American Scientist
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
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Alfred Hitchcock
English Director
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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C. L. R. James
Trinidadian Journalist
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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Clara Zetkin
German Politician
In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
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Joseph Stalin
Georgian Leader
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Quote examples
John Mott
American Leader
Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.
Quote examples
Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Blackwell
American Scientist
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
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Alfred Hitchcock
English Director
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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C. L. R. James
Trinidadian Journalist
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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