• (RP) IPA: /hɒˈstɪlɪti/
• (GA) IPA: /hɑˈstɪlɪti/

hostility

1. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.

   My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.

   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special ↗," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

     The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.

2. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

• (state of being hostile) antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred, unfriendliness
• (military action) war, fighting, combat

• (state of being hostile) amity, friendliness
• (military action) peace

• hostile

• French: hostilité
• German: Feindseligkeit
• Italian: ostilità
• Portuguese: hostilidade
• Russian: вражде́бность
• Spanish: hostilidad

• Russian: вражде́бный акт
• Spanish: hostilidad