animosité
French, noun/a.ni.mo.zi.te/
animosité is spelled A-N-I-M-O-S-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animosité is a French feminine noun meaning “animosity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposition persistante de malveillance qui porte à nuire à quelqu’un”.
What does animosité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanimosity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Disposition persistante de malveillance qui porte à nuire à quelqu’un. 2. Chaleur excessive, d’une certaine violence dans un débat, dans une discussion verbale, dans une querelle de plume.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of animosité
- animosités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce animosité?
- /a.ni.mo.zi.te/
- \a.ni.mɔ.zi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to animosité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is animosité in French?
animosité appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).