different between malice vs antipathy

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?l'?s, IPA^(key): /?mæl?s/

Noun

malice (usually uncountable, plural malices)

1. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
   • 1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, ?ISBN, page 67:

     […] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.

2. (law) An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.

Synonyms

• (intention to harm): evilness, ill will, wickedness

Derived terms

• malicious

Related terms

• malady

Translations

Further reading

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

Verb

malice (third-person singular simple present malices, present participle malicing, simple past and past participle maliced)

1. To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.

Synonyms

• envy (obsolete), grudge (obsolete), spite

Anagrams

• amelic, claime, maleic

Esperanto

Etymology

From malico +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?lit?se/
• Hyphenation: ma?lic?e
• Rhymes: -it?se

Adverb

malice

1. maliciously

French

Etymology

From Old French malice, borrowed from Latin malitia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.lis/

Noun

malice f (plural malices)

1. mischief
2. malice

Related terms

• mal

References

• “malice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “malice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malitia.

Noun

malice f (oblique plural malices, nominative singular malice, nominative plural malices)

1. malice, evilness, evil intentions
2. malicious act

Descendants

• French: malice

References

• malice on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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