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Disgust vs Disgustedness - What's the difference?

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Disgust is a synonym of disgustedness.


As nouns the difference between disgust and disgustedness

is that disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty while disgustedness is the state or condition of being disgusted.

As a verb disgust

is to cause an intense dislike for something.

disgust

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
  • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
  • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

    disgustedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being disgusted.
  • Synonyms

    * disgust