Revulsion vs Despair - What's the difference?
revulsion | despair |
abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror
A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
(medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
(obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
* Milton
(obsolete) To cause to despair.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 8
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
That which is despaired of.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between revulsion and despair
is that revulsion is (obsolete) a sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings while despair is (obsolete) to cause to despair.As nouns the difference between revulsion and despair
is that revulsion is abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror while despair is loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.As a verb despair is
(obsolete) to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.revulsion
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Revulsions and pullbacks.
- A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.
See also
* revulsivedespair
English
Verb
(en verb)- I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
- We despaired even of life.
Noun
- He turned around in despair , aware that he was not going to survive