Definition of "antagonism" []

• Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness. See Synonyms at enmity. (noun)
• The condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor: the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism. (noun)
• Biochemistry Interference in the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure. (noun)

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• "And even when they do manage to notice a rise in antagonism, they somehow employ the wrong strategy to placate it."
• "Antagonism never lulled revolution, and antagonism is about all the capitalist class offers."
• "I think that relationship of antagonism is pretty damn important to that type of fiction, and the fundamental difference in attitude between that and "pro-strange" WFA winners is a point of interest, surely."