Plural of antipathy; multiple instances of strong natural dislike or opposition between people or things.
Plural form of antipathy, from Greek anti- (against) + pathos (feeling). Dating to the 16th century, antipathy entered English as a noun directly, with -ies as the regular plural, though -ys appeared in early texts.
The word antipathy originally meant a physical repulsion—people in the Renaissance believed some substances literally pushed away from each other like magnets. The modern meaning (emotional dislike) came later, making this one of English's oldest psychological terms.
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