A feeling or attitude of intense opposition to a person, group, or an action. After the strike, the hostility the workers felt toward management made the work place tense and unfriendly. back
A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.