noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

abhorrenceabominabilityabominationallergyanglophobiaannoyance

Example

More examples

"I cannot overcome my repugnance to eating snails."

Etymology

From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).

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