| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·tag·o·nism |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n-tg  -n z m |
| NOUN: | 1. Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness. See synonyms at enmity. 2. The condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor: the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism. 3. Biochemistry Interference in the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure.
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