Antagonism

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Antagonism is hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness.

Additionally, it may refer to:

  • Antagonism (chemistry), where the involvement of multiple agents reduce their overall effect
  • Antagonism (philosophy), a principle, force or factor that is an active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness
  • Antagonism (pharmacology), when a substance binds to the same site an agonist would bind to without causing activation of the receptor
  • Antagonism (phytopathology), the action of any microbes that suppresses the activity of a plant pathogen.

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