Both Uses of
antagonism
in
Atlas Shrugged
- There was no mockery, no amusement, no antagonism; it was as if he did not belong in these particular moments of existence and could not be reached.†
Chpt 1.7 *antagonism = hostility or opposition
- Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless solicitude was an ugly danger.†
Chpt 3.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(antagonism) hostility, opposition, or tension between opposing forces or ideas
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, antagonism can refer to the relation between opposing principles, forces, or factors. In biochemistry, it can refer specifically to one chemical's interference with another.