Disgust vs Incense - What's the difference?

Disgust is a related term of incense.

As verbs the difference between disgust and incense

is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while incense is to anger or infuriate.

As nouns the difference between disgust and incense

is that disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty while incense is a perfume used in the rites of various religions.

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.

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incense

English

Noun

(wikipedia incense)

A perfume used in the rites of various religions.

Derived terms

* incense boat * incense cedar

Verb

To anger or infuriate.

I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

(archaic) To incite, stimulate.

To offer incense to.

(Chaucer)

To perfume with, or as with, incense.

* Marston

Incensed with wanton sweetes.

(obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

* Chapman

Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.