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Repugnance vs Pungency - What's the difference?

repugnance | pungency |

As nouns the difference between repugnance and pungency

is that repugnance is repugnance while pungency is the state of being pungent.

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.

    • pungency

    English

    Noun

    (pungencies)
  • The state of being pungent.
  • A foul odor.

    • Synonyms

    * pungence

    Related terms

    * pungent * pungently