Disgust vs Loathsomeness - What's the difference?
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To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
The property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.
*1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:
*:Must putrefaction’s breath / Leave nothing of this heavenly sight / But loathsomeness and ruin?
As nouns the difference between disgust and loathsomeness
is that disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty while loathsomeness is the property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.As a verb disgust
is to cause an intense dislike for something.disgust
English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- 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) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.