Hostility /(?)/

Hos·til·i·ty

Hostility

n.

pl. Hostilities

  1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
    Hostility being thus suspended with France.
    — Hayward.
  2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities
    He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend.
    — Crabb.