Expulsion vs Repulsion - What's the difference?
expulsion | repulsion |
The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.
The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
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As nouns the difference between expulsion and repulsion
is that expulsion is the act of expelling or the state of being expelled while repulsion is the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.expulsion
English
(wikipedia expulsion)Noun
(en noun)- The scandal involved every member of the high school's football team resulting in a flurry of expulsions , starting with the quarterback.
Antonyms
* impulsionrepulsion
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}