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action vs hostility

hostility vs action

action and hostility both are nouns.

action is a verb but hostility is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
action Yes No Yes No
hostility Yes No No No
As nouns, hostility is a hyponym of action; that is, hostility is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than action:
  • action: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
  • hostility: violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
Other hyponyms of action include thing, exercise, benignity, kindness, accomplishment, achievement, alienation, application, res gestae, course, course of action, interaction, fetch, playing, play, swordplay, arrival, carrying into action, carrying out, execution, performance, choice, option, pick, selection, change, economy, saving, forbiddance, inhibition, prohibition, opposition, resistance, bruxism, transfusion, pickings, taking, transgression, aggression, group action, destabilisation, destabilization, employment, engagement, civility, politeness, reverence, consultation, reference, accenting, accentuation, emphasizing, beatification, jump-start, jumpstart, stupefaction, vampirism.
action (noun) hostility (noun)
the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition
something done (usually as opposed to something said) the feeling of a hostile person
a military engagement a state of deep-seated ill-will
an act by a government body or supranational organization
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
the series of events that form a plot
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
the state of being active
action (verb) hostility (verb)
put in effect
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
Difference between action and hostility

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