hostilityn.[L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit.]1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.()Hostility being thus suspended with France. (Hayward.)2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities()He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. (Crabb.)()