Detestable vs Revulsion - What's the difference?
detestable | revulsion |
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
As an adjective detestable
is stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.As a noun revulsion is
abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.detestable
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "detestable" is often applied: crime, thing, practices, act, character, nature, person, conduct, villain, behavior.Derived terms
* detestablenessSee also
* hateful * abominable * loathsome * horridAnagrams
*revulsion
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Noun
(en-noun)- Revulsions and pullbacks.
- A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.