Difference between Antagonism and Hostility

ANTAGONISM vs HOSTILITY: NOUN

An actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
The relation between opposing principles or forces or factors
A state of deep-seated ill-will
Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness. : enmity.
The condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor.
The state of being mutually opposed; mutual resistance or opposition of two forces in action; contrariety of things or principles.
The act of antagonizing; opposition.
A strong natural dislike or hatred; antipathy.
(biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

Acts of overt warfare
A hostile (very unfriendly) disposition
The feeling of a hostile person
A state of deep-seated ill-will
The state of being hostile; antagonism or enmity. : enmity.
A hostile act.
Acts of war; overt warfare.
The state of being hostile; inimical feeling; antagonism.
Hostile action; open opposition by war or other means; especially, in the plural, acts of warfare.
A hostile act which follows a declaration of war.
Synonyms Animosity, Ill-will, Enmity (see animosity); unfriendliness, opposition, violence, aggression.
War, fighting.
State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities
The state of being hostile.
A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

Adversarial, Divergence, Ire, Conflict, Feud, Confrontation, Rivalry, Strife, Disagreement, Antagonistic, Friction, Animus, Animosity, Enmity, Hostility

Hate, Confrontation, Harassment, Ire, Backlash, Hostile, Xenophobia, Animus, Hatred, Animosity, Ill will, Belligerency, Aggression, Enmity, Antagonism

Confrontational, Contradiction, Adversarial, Divergence, Ire, Conflict, Confrontation, Rivalry, Strife, Disagreement, Antagonistic, Friction, Animus, Animosity, Hostility

Rivalry, Rejection, Rage, Hate, Confrontation, Ire, Hostile, Xenophobia, Animus, Hatred, Animosity, Ill will, Belligerency, Aggression, Antagonism

Scopolamine and depression: a role for muscarinic antagonism?
This estrogenic antagonism suggests levonorgestrel acts like progesterone.
Are you talking about its antagonism towards suffrage?
European power politics took precedence over religious antagonism.
The antagonism between Kinshasa and Luanda was mutual.
Allosteric antagonism of insect odorant receptor ion channels.
Antagonism and adjustment to the criminal justice system.
Emiratis have no reason for antagonism toward Israelis.
The inbuilt antagonism between the player and the game replaces, in the mind of the worker, the deeper antagonism between boss and worker.
In the market it is hard to say that the antagonism of classes becomes more severe, but the antagonism among individuals certainly increases.

So, it is not a question of hostility.
It promotes neutralism, hostility toward colonialism and imperialism.
But violence breeds violence, and hostility breeds hostility.
For most of recorded history Assail has been a name of hostility and dread, a land of unrelenting hostility and warfare.
Better communication means less hostility; less hostility means less fighting, which translates into less stress for you and especially your children.
The therapist must realize that although he senses hostility on the part of the subject, this hostility I only secondarily directed at him.
Development of hostility to suggestions and growing hostility and distrust.
Keeping hostility in perspective: Coronary heart disease and the hostility scale on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
Similarly, people may expect hostility in others and induce this hostility by their own behavior.
Other researchers have found certain components of hostility, namely hostility suppression, defensive hostility, and cynical hostility, to be related to BP and hypertension.