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• n  a state of deep-seated ill-will
• n  the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors
  the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism
• n  an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
• n  (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

• At some point the political antagonism tilted into the personal.
• But, sad to say, there's been a lot of antagonism between medical personnel and clergy in sub-Saharan Africa.
• The origins of this antagonism are centuries old.

• hostility
• enmity

News & Articles

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• Anti-Bike Crusader Dorothy Rabinowitz Will Not Be Silenced
  After taking a reasonable amount of heat from reasonable people for her delusional rant against the "dreadful," "totalitarian," "all-powerful" "bike lobby," Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz has bravely stood up again against the "antagonism."
  June 7, 2013 - New York Magazine
• Reason Comes to China-EU Solar Clash
  After more than a year of antagonism, I’m happy to see that the voice of reason finally seems to be coming to the ongoing clash between China and the west in their prolonged dispute over Beijing’s state support for its solar panel sector. Germany seems to be the driving force behind this welcome change in tone, following German Chancellor Angela Me
  June 6, 2013 - Renewable Energy World

Quotes

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• Franklin D Roosevelt in Salon
  Sept. 1, 2009 | "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering," President Franklin Roosevelt told an audience in Madison Square...
• Fidel Castro in International Herald Tribune
  Faced with the government's policies of antagonism, we are proposing policies of agreement and consensus,said Lauurence Castro, a 26-year-old student at the University of the Andes in the city of Merida. "People are tired of so much...
• Winston Churchill in NEWS.com.au
  BRITAIN'S WWII prime minister Winston Churchill argued that Jewish people were "partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer" in an article publicised for the first time tomorrow.