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Disfavour vs Repugnance - What's the difference?

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Disfavour is a related term of repugnance.


As nouns the difference between disfavour and repugnance

is that disfavour is the state of being out of favour while repugnance is repugnance.

As a verb disfavour

is to show lack of favour or antipathy towards.

disfavour

English

Alternative forms

*disfavor

Noun

  • The state of being out of favour.
  • :His lateness for the appointment incurred her disfavour .
  • * Bible, Is. x. 6 (1551)
    • the people that deserved my disfavour
  • * Gladstone
    • sentiment of disfavour against its ally
  • An unkindness; a disobliging act.
  • * Clarendon
    • He might dispense favours and disfavours .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.
    • Her past performance meant that she was often disfavoured for important tasks.

    repugnance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • extreme aversion, repulsion
  • 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.