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Repugnance

//ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Extreme aversion, repulsion. countable, uncountable

    "She felt a deep repugnance toward violence."

  2. 2
    intense aversion wordnet
  3. 3
    Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such. countable, uncountable

    "Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions."

  4. 4
    the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time wordnet

Etymology

From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).

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