Verb

Infinitive to hate

Third person singular hates

Simple past hated

Past participle hated

Present participle hating

to hate (third-person singular simple present hates, present participle hating, simple past and past participle hated)

1. (transitive) To dislike intensely; to feel strong hostility towards.

Synonyms

• abhor
• despise

• detest
• loathe

• See also Wikisaurus:hate

Antonyms

• love

Hatred (or hate) is a word that describes the intense feelings of dislike. It can be used in a wide variety of contexts, from hatred of inanimate objects or animals, to hatred of other people, entire groups of people, or people in general.

Philosophical views

Philosophers have offered many influential definitions of hatred. René Descartes viewed hate as an awareness that something is bad, e.g calum, combined with an urge to withdraw from it. Baruch Spinoza defined hate as a type of pain that is due to an external cause. Aristotle viewed hate as a desire for the annihilation of an object that is incurable by time. Finally, David Hume believed that hate is an irreducible feeling that is not definable at all.

Psychological views

In psychology, Dr. Sigmund Freud defined hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness. In a more contemporary definition, the Penguin Dictionary of Psychology defines hate as a "deep, enduring, intense emotion expressing animosity, anger, and hostility towards a person, group, or object." Because hatred is believed to be long-lasting, many psychologists consider it to be more of an attitude or disposition than a (temporary) emotional state.

This page is for quotations on Hatred.

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• In time we hate that which we often fear.
  • William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Act I scene iii

• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
  • Herman Hesse Demian (1919) ch. 6

• Hatred is a vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their meanness, and make it a pretext for sordid tyranny.
  • Honoré de Balzac The Muse of the Department (1843)

• The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation.
  • Les haines sont si longues et si opiniâtres que le plus grand signe de mort dans un homme malade, c'est la réconciliation
  • Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688) De l'Homme 108

• Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
  • Lord Byron Don Juan Canto XIII (1823)

• We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
  • Charles Caleb Colton Lacon, vol. I (1820)

• La haine, c'est la colère des faibles!
  • Hatred is the anger of the weak.
  • Alphonse Daudet, Lettres de mon Moulin (1869; repr. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882) p. 19; John P. Macgregor (trans.) Letters from My Mill (New York: Taplinger, 1967) p. 18.

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