Repugnance vs Hatred - What's the difference?
repugnance | hatred | Related terms |
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.
Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
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Repugnance is a related term of hatred.
As nouns the difference between repugnance and hatred
is that repugnance is repugnance while hatred is strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.repugnance
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(en noun)hatred
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(en noun)- the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred
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- Fears and hatreds pay no attention to facts.