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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



... witnessed the affair, took a radically contrary view, which everyone else not of the Leddy partisanship readily accepted. Despite the frequency of Jack's visits to the Ewold garden and all the happy exchange of pleasantries with his hosts, the community could not escape the thought of a certain latent hostility toward Jack on the part of the Doge, the more noticeable because it was so out of keeping ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer

... themselves in the stormy politics of the country. Northern Abyssinia was now divided into two camps, the one, Amhara and Ras Ali, under Protestant British, and the other, Tigre and Ubie, under Roman Catholic French, influence. The latent hostility between the two factions threatened at one time to develop into a religious war, but no serious campaigns took place until Kassa (later Theodore) appeared on ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



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



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