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Disrepute vs Repugnance - What's the difference?

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Disrepute is a related term of repugnance.


As nouns the difference between disrepute and repugnance

is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while repugnance is repugnance.

As a verb disrepute

is to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.

disrepute

English

Noun

(-)
  • Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
  • *
    • Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .

    Verb

    (disreput)
  • To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.

    • Anagrams

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    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.