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Peevishness vs Disgust - What's the difference?

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Peevishness is a related term of disgust.


As nouns the difference between peevishness and disgust

is that peevishness is the state of being peevish 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.

peevishness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being peevish.

    • disgust

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
    • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • 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) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
    • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

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