antipathy
an-TIP-uh-theenounMeaning a strong, settled dislike
Memory hook ANTI-PATH: a feeling AGAINST. From the day they met, Whiskers the cat and Rufus the dog have glared and growled at each other: they share a deep antipathy.
Grandpa’s antipathy toward loud music was no secret.
In context Their antipathy began with a quarrel over a fence, and for twenty years the two neighbors refused even to say good morning to each other.
Similar dislike, hostility, aversion, animosity
Opposite liking, affection, sympathy
From Greek antipatheia: anti (against) + pathos (feeling).