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Repugnance vs Indignation - What's the difference?

repugnance | indignation |

As nouns the difference between repugnance and indignation

is that repugnance is repugnance while indignation is an anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.

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.

    • indignation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
  • A self-righteous anger or disgust.

    • Related terms

    * deign * dignify * indign * indignant * undignified