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Latent hostility   /lˈeɪtənt hɑstˈɪləti/   Listen
Latent hostility

noun
1.
Feelings of hostility that are not manifest.  Synonym: tension.  "The diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions"





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"Latent hostility" Quotes from Famous Books



... he stopped her. She tried a third time. His manner was all courtesy and consideration, not the shade of a change. But she began to feel a latent hostility. Instinctively she knew that he would no longer help her, that he would leave her to her own resources, and judge her by how she acquitted herself. She made a blunder of ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips


Words linked to "Latent hostility" :   antagonism, hostility, tension, enmity


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