Scorn vs Repugnance - What's the difference?
scorn | repugnance | Related terms |
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
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.
Scorn is a related term of repugnance.
As nouns the difference between scorn and repugnance
is that scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain while repugnance is repugnance.As a verb scorn
is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.scorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.