enmity

Etymology

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. Equivalent to enemy + -ity.

noun

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   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. 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 242e
2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.