Enmity
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
Example sentence: Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Hostility
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The state of being hostile;A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Example sentence: My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.