repugnance

See also: répugnance

English

Etymology

From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)

1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.

   She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.

   He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.

   moral repugnance

   sense of repugnance

   express repugnance

2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)

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

Translations

Translations

French: répugnance (fr) f Greek: απέχθεια (el) f (apéchtheia) Malayalam: വെറുപ്പ് (ml) (veṟuppŭ) Maori: ongaonga

See also

• repugnancy