Usually means: Strong feeling of dislike, aversion.
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  1. antipathy: Merriam-Webster
  2. antipathy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antipathy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antipathy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antipathy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antipathy, antipathy: Wordnik
  7. antipathy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antipathy: Wiktionary
  9. antipathy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antipathy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. antipathy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. antipathy: Dictionary.com
  13. antipathy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. antipathy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Antipathy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Antipathy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. antipathy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. antipathy: Rhymezone
  19. antipathy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. antipathy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. antipathy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. antipathy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. antipathy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Antipathy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. antipathy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. antipathy: Merriam-Webster

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  1. antipathy: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. antipathy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. antipathy: Medical dictionary

(Note: See antipathies as well.)

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noun:  (uncountable) Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  (uncountable) Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  (countable) A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A person or thing that has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards another person or thing; a hater.

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