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Repugnance vs Indignant - What's the difference?

repugnance | indignant |

As a noun repugnance

is extreme aversion, repulsion.

As an adjective indignant is

showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.

repugnance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • indignant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.

    • Synonyms

    * angry, infuriated, mad, resentful

    Related terms

    * indign * indignation

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