different between antipathy vs abominate

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (antipátheia), noun of state from ????????? (antipath?s, “opposed in feeling”), from ???? (antí, “against”) + root of ????? (páthos, “feeling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æn?t?p??i/
• Hyphenation: an?tip?athy

Noun

antipathy (countable and uncountable, plural antipathies)

1. A feeling of dislike (normally towards someone, less often towards something); repugnance or distaste.
   • 4 November 2016, Spencer Ackerman writing in The Guardian, 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say

     Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.

   • June 1917, The National Geographic Magazine Volume 31, No. 6, Our State Flowers/The Sagebrush

     The sagebrush belongs to the composite family, and its immediate cousins are widely distributed. They are known as the artemisias, and there are a host of them, many with important uses in the economy of civilization. Artemisia absinthium is popularly known as wormwood; from it comes the bitter, aromatic liquor known as eau or crême d'absinthe. Many of its cousins grow in Asia and Europe, including the mugwort, used by the Germans as a seasoning in cookery; southernwood, used by the British to drive away moths from linen and woolens and to force newly swarmed bees, which have a peculiar antipathy for it, into the hive
2. Natural contrariety or incompatibility

Usage notes

• Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".

Synonyms

• (dislike): : hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition

Antonyms

• sympathy

Related terms

• antipathetic
• antipathetical
• antipathize

Translations

Further reading

• antipathy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• antipathy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• antipathy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin ab?min?tus, past participle of ab?minar? (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?m.??n??t/, /??b?m.??n??t/
• (adjective): (US) IPA^(key): /?.?b?m.?.?n??t/, /?.?b?m.?.?n??t/, /?.?b?m.?.n?t/

Adjective

abominate (comparative more abominate, superlative most abominate)

1. (rare) Abominable; detested. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]

Verb

abominate (third-person singular simple present abominates, present participle abominating, simple past and past participle abominated)

1. (transitive) To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread. [First attested in the mid 17^th century.]

   Synonym: abhor
2. (transitive, colloquial) To dislike strongly. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Synonyms

• (to abhor): abhor, loathe, detest
• See also Thesaurus:hate

Derived terms

• abominator

Related terms

• abomination

Translations

References

Italian

Verb

abominate

1. second-person plural present indicative of abominare
2. second-person plural imperative of abominare
3. feminine plural of abominato

Latin

Verb

ab?min?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ab?min?