hostility

Other forms of hostility

plural

hostilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hostility

What does hostility mean?

hostility means "a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hostility?

hostility has 4 syllables: ho-stil-i-ty. The stress falls on "stil". In IPA it is /hɑˈstɪləti/.

What is another word for hostility?

Close synonyms include ill will, enmity, antagonism, enmity, ill will. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hostility a common word?

hostility is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.