#67 antipathy

#67 antipathy- a feeling of intense aversion, dislike, hostility

- C17 from Latin antipathia, Greek antipatheia, patheia- feeling

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. ~ Barack Obama

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