enmity

From Middle English enemyte, from Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.[1] Equivalent to enemy +‎ -ity.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/, (proscribed) /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/[1]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/, (proscribed) /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/

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enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.

     Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.

2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 3:15, column 1:

  And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy ſeed and her ſeed: it ſhal bruiſe thy head, and thou ſhalt bruiſe his heele.

• amity

• enmity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Notes:

• Minety