Hypertext Webster Gateway: "antagonism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Antagonism \An*tag"o*nism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to struggle
against; ? against + ? to contend or struggle, ? contest: cf.
F. antagonisme. See {Agony}.]
Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things
or principles.
Note: We speak of antagonism between two things, to or
against a thing, and sometimes with a thing.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
antagonism
n 1: a state of deep-seated ill-will [syn: {hostility}, {enmity}]
2: the relation between opposing principles or forces or
factors; "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and
socialism"
3: an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
4: (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the
physiological action of a chemical substance by another
having a similar structure
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