Repugnance vs Contempt - What's the difference?
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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.
(uncountable) The state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
* , chapter=13
, title= The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
(legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
As nouns the difference between repugnance and contempt
is that repugnance is extreme aversion, repulsion while contempt is the state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.repugnance
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(en noun)contempt
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(wikipedia contempt)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}