Mortification vs Disgust - What's the difference?
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The act of mortifying.
A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
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(medicine) The death of part of the body.
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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.
Mortification is a related term of disgust.
As nouns the difference between mortification and disgust
is that mortification is the act of mortifying while disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.As a verb disgust is
to cause an intense dislike for something.mortification
English
Noun
(en noun)- And then there's the fever and the mortification —if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.
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.
