Definitions of hostility

1. Acts of war.

2. Warlike measures.

3. a state of deep- seated ill- will

4. the feeling of a hostile person; " he could no longer contain his hostility"

5. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

6. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.

7. The state of being opposed; antagonism; enmity; animosity; as, his hostility made all my efforts useless.

8. Enmity:- pl. HOSTILITIES, acts of warfare.

9. State of being hostile.