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Inimicality

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Inimicality
    The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) inimicality
    The state of being inimical; hostility; unfriendliness.
Usage in the news

Fresh analysis suggests CoRoT-7b's orbit makes it super-inimical to life. msnbc.msn.com

Usage in scientific papers

The apparently inimical relationship between magnetism and superconductivity has come under increasing scrutiny in a wide range of material classes, where the free energy landscape conspires to bring them in close proximity to each other.
Magnetism and superconductivity driven by identical 4$f$ states in a heavy-fermion metal

F. Dibos, and G. Koepfler, 2000, Global total variation m inim ization, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 37(2), 646 –664.
Undithering using linear filtering and non-linear diffusion techniques

The first work to generalize the theory of minimal and almost m inimal multiplicity to arbitrary ideals was done by Polini and Xie .
Generalized Hilbert Functions

This method is tuned to m inimize the Xma x acceptance bias, at the cost of fewer accepted events; the tight FoV cut reduces the accepted events of Auger by half for energies above 1018.2 eV.
Measurement of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: An Experimental Summary and Prospects

We will see that these give Bailey flows from the m inimal model M (p, p′ ) to the superconformal models SM (p′ , 2p + p′ ) and SM (p′ , 3p′ − 2p).
Fermionic Formulas For Unrestricted Kostka Polynomials And Superconformal Characters

Usage in literature

Of all the tribes I believe the Sioux to be the most inimical to the Americans. "Diary in America, Series One" by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

And yet no one could say that I was inimical to that girl. "Chance" by Joseph Conrad

She remembered the familiar doom of the mountain horse-thief, the men lurking on the cliff, the inimical feeling against the ranger. "'way Down In Lonesome Cove" by Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

There was no need to check the air or take precautions against inimical animal or vegetable life. "A Matter of Importance" by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

He felt at the present time, moreover, that he was inimical to his mother and her interests. "Flamsted quarries" by Mary E. Waller

He has invoked inimical influences. "The Life Radiant" by Lilian Whiting

What was inimical was the lift and fall of the ice in the great swells running in from the open sea. "Harbor Tales Down North" by Norman Duncan

This was startling, suggesting as it did the approach of other horsemen, who might be inimical and about to attack. "In the Mahdi's Grasp" by George Manville Fenn

Their religion appears to have had an effect inimical to their beauty. "A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1" by Otto von Kotzebue

The dangerous intimacy, half tender, half inimical, returned. "The Kingdom Round the Corner" by Coningsby Dawson

Usage in poetry
Felicity, ah! Time is the hooded enemy,
The inimical music, the enchantered space
In which the enchanted preludes have their place.
Volano. Alas, why should we tarry?
Fly all, O fly with speed
This inimical splendour,
These dread and deadly accents,
The utterance of God!