Definitions for antagonism



Overview of noun antagonism

The noun antagonism has 4 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. hostility, enmity, antagonism

(a state of deep-seated ill-will)

2. antagonism

(the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors; "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism")

3. antagonism

(an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility)

4. antagonism

((biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure)

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