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Repugnance vs Loathing - What's the difference?

repugnance | loathing | Related terms |

Repugnance is a related term of loathing.


As nouns the difference between repugnance and loathing

is that repugnance is repugnance while loathing is sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.

As a verb loathing is

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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.

    • loathing

    English

    Noun

  • Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.
    • The man's loathing of his former friend was palpable; you could feel how much he now hated him.

    Verb

    (head)