plural antipathies
Definition of antipathy
1
: a strong feeling of dislike
an antipathy to taxes a deep antipathy between the groups
2
: something disliked : an object of aversion
… perhaps his greatest antipathies were cabs, old women, doors that would not shut …— Charles Dickens
3
obsolete
: opposition in feeling
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The first known use of antipathy was in 1592
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