antipathy
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antipathy
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- Deep-seated hatred, as between longtime opponents or rivals: animosity, animus, antagonism, enmity, hostility, ill will. See love/hatred.
- Extreme hostility and dislike: abhorrence, abomination, aversion, detestation, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repugnancy, repulsion, revulsion. See love/hatred.
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antipathy
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Definition: strong dislike, disgust
Antonyms: admiration, appreciation, approval, esteem, honor, like, liking, love, rapport, regard, respect, sympathy
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Early astrologers claimed that the dislike one feels for another person or thing is caused by the stars. Thus, two persons born under the same aspect will be mutually attracted and will love without knowing why. Others born under opposite conjunctions will feel an unreasoning hate for each other.
But what is the explanation for the antipathy people sometimes have for the commonest things? Lamothe-Levayer could not bear to hear the sound of any musical instrument. Caesar could not hear the crowing of a cock without shuddering; Lord Bacon fell into despondency during the eclipse of the moon; Marie de Medicis could not bear to look on a rose, even in a painting, although she loved all other flowers. Cardinal Henry of Cardonne had the same antipathy toward the odor of roses; Marshal d'Albret became ill at dinner when a young wild boar or a suckling pig was served; Henry III of France could not remain in the same room with a cat; Marshal de Schomberg had the same weakness; Ladislas, king of Poland, was much disturbed at the sight of apples; Scaliger trembled at the sight of cress; Erasmus could not taste fish without having the fever; Tycho-Brahe felt his knees give way when he met a hare or a fox; the duke of Epernon fainted at the sight of a leveret; Cardan could not stomach eggs; Ariosto, baths; the son of Croesus, bread; Caesar of Lescalle, the sound of the vielle or violin.
The causes of these antipathies might be found in childhood impressions. A lady who was very fond of pictures and engravings fainted when she found them in a book. She explained her terror thus: When she was a child her father had one day seen her turning over the leaves of the books in his library, in search of pictures. He had roughly taken the book from her hand, telling her in terrible tones that there were devils in these books who would strangle her if she dared touch them. Such threats may have lingering effects that cannot be overcome.
Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869) investigated human antipathies and their opposite, sympathies, as they relate to colors, metals, magnetic poles, right and left hand polarities, and heat and cold. He distinguished specific antipathies and sympathies that were characteristic of sensitives (mediumistic individuals) and related his findings to animal magnetism and mesmerism.
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IN BRIEF: Strong hostility.
There was too much antipathy between the brothers for them to share the holidays.
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"Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected."
- Samuel Johnson
"They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight."
- Marshall Pugh
"Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine."
- William Shakespeare
"Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes."
- William Shakespeare
"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."
- J. August Strindberg
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- Disapproval, Disrespect, and Denial - antipathy: aversion, dislike
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Look up antipathy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Antipathy is dislike for something or somebody, the opposite of sympathy. While antipathy may be induced by previous experience, it sometimes exists without a rational cause-and-effect explanation being present to the individuals involved.
Thus, the origin of antipathy has been subject to various psychological explanations, which some people find convincing and others regard as highly speculative. Sigmund Freud has treated this subject.
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Interpersonal Antipathy
Interpersonal antipathy is often irrationally ascribed to mannerisms or certain physical characteristics, which are perceived as signs for character traits (e.g. close together, deep set eyes as a sign for dullness or cruelty[1]). Furthermore, the negative feeling sometimes takes place fast and without reasoning, functioning below the level of attention, thus resembling an automatic process.[2]
Chester Alexander’s empirical findings suggest that an important characteristic of antipathies is that they are “marginal to reflective consciousness”. Alexander based this conclusion on the fact that many of the subjects of the study reported to have never thought much about their antipathies, have not tried to analyze them or discuss them with others.[2]
Sympathy and antipathy modify social behavior. Although it is generally assumed that antipathy causes avoidance, some empirical studies gathered evidence that an antipathetic reaction to objects was not followed by any effort to avoid future encounters.[1]
Pseudo-Antipathy
Sophie Bryant observed the occurrence of pseudo-antipathy. Pseudo-antipathy consists in “the careless and arbitrary interpretation of another person’s acts and expressions in accordance with the worst side of one’s self”.[3] In other words, we tend to project our own faults into others and hate them. Pseudo-antipathy is based on the (implicit) knowledge about the negative sides of one’s own character. Sophie Bryant compares the resulting feeling with “a certain wrong-headed sense of cleansing”.[3]
In Astrology
In astrology, antipathy is speculated to be the conflict in the natal horoscopes of two people who feel an aversion to each other. This relates to the concept of synastry, which means that according to astrologists beliefs, two person's horoscopes can be compared to see how compatible or incompatible they are likely to be towards each other.
Astrologic belief claims the following: The karmic implications of antipathy can explain why people fall in love, marry, fall out of love, and then divorce. Because they have agreed to meet up in this life to resolve a karmic or dharmic issue, they must initially be attracted to one another, so there will inevitably be correlations in the horoscope that will cause them to be attracted to one another. For those individuals who fall in love and want to marry, there must be strong stabilizing influences in the comparison of the chart to indicate they would like to have a stable relationship with some permanence in it. As the relationship progresses, other facets of their personality will manifest though aspects, and it is these aspects that will determine the success or failure of the relationship.
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Antipathy
Dansk (Danish)
n. - antipati, modvillighed, fjendtlighed
Nederlands (Dutch)
sterke afkeer
Français (French)
n. - antipathie
Deutsch (German)
n. - Antipathie, Abneigung
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αντιπάθεια, απέχθεια
Português (Portuguese)
n. - antipatia (f), repugnância, aversão
Español (Spanish)
n. - antipatía, animadversión
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - motvilja
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
憎恶, 反感
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 憎惡, 反感
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 천성적으로 싫어함, 혐오감
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 反感, 嫌悪, 毛嫌い, 大嫌いなもの
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) كراهيه, تعارض غرزي
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - סלידה, אנטיפתיה
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