ŏ'di-ŭm, n.

n. [Lat., from odi, odisse, to hate; It., Sp., & Pg. odio, Pr. odi.]

1. Hatred; dislike.
2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.

She threw the odium of the fact on me. Dryden. Odium theologicum, the enmity peculiar to contending theologians. Syn. — Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy. —ODIUM, HATRED. We exercise hatred; we endure odium; in this sense, the former is active and the latter passive. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs the hatred of all good men, and, by his actions, brings upon himself the public odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent. I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully. Shak. Inventors of new taxes, being hateful to the people, seldom fail of bringing odium on their master. Davenant.