Repugnance vs Hostility - What's the difference?
repugnance | hostility | 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.
(uncountable) The state of being hostile.
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(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Repugnance is a related term of hostility.
As nouns the difference between repugnance and hostility
is that repugnance is repugnance while hostility is (uncountable) the state of being hostile.repugnance
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(en noun)hostility
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- There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
Everton 0-2 Liverpool, passage=But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.}}
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.
