Repugnance vs Phobia - What's the difference?
repugnance | phobia |
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.
An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.
As nouns the difference between repugnance and phobia
is that repugnance is repugnance while phobia is an irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.repugnance
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(en noun)phobia
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Noun
- I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.