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Detestable vs Revulsion - What's the difference?

detestable | revulsion |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
  • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "detestable" is often applied: crime, thing, practices, act, character, nature, person, conduct, villain, behavior.

    Derived terms

    * detestableness

    See also

    * hateful * abominable * loathsome * horrid

    Anagrams

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    revulsion

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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
  • Revulsions and pullbacks.
  • (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
  • * Macaulay
  • A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.

    See also

    * revulsive