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Odium vs Repugnance - What's the difference?

odium | repugnance | Related terms |

Odium is a related term of repugnance.


As nouns the difference between odium and repugnance

is that odium is hatred; dislike while repugnance is repugnance.

odium

English

Noun

(-)
  • Hatred; dislike.
    • His conduct brought him into odium''', or, brought '''odium upon him.
  • The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
  • * Dryden
    • She threw the odium of the fact on me.

    Related terms

    * odious ----

    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.