HOW TO PRONOUNCE
antipathy
/ænˈtɪpəθi/
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Stress “tip,” then lighten the ending.
Keep the final th unvoiced, like the beginning of thin, and finish with an ee sound.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The novel explores a growing antipathy between neighbors.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does antipathy mean?
noun
- 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.
- Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.
- A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.
More meanings (2)
noun
- The quality of being antipathetic: not easily united by grafting.
- (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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IPA pronunciation
/ænˈtɪpəθi/
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See this word in context.
A man may cry out against sin of policy, but he cannot abhor it, but by virtue of a godly antipathy against it.
The psychologists speak of sympathy as this susceptibility to the emotions of others, but there is an antipathy to their emotions, as well.
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This antipathy asserts itself even in the case of the liveries or uniforms which some corporations prescribe as the distinctive dress of their employees.
The child might conceivably generate in time a violent antipathy, not only to that particular toy, but to the class of toys resembling it.
In some cases the antipathy or the idiosyncrasy develops to such an extent as to be in itself a species of monomania.