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Repugnance vs Recalcitration - What's the difference?

repugnance | recalcitration |

As nouns the difference between repugnance and recalcitration

is that repugnance is repugnance while recalcitration is a kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

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.

    • recalcitration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.
    • (Webster 1913)